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�Clinical epidemiology� is now widely promoted and taught as a �basic science� of Evidence-Based Medicine, of clinical EBM to be specific.� This book, however, is mostly about that which Miettinen takes to be the necessary substitute for this now-so-fashionable subject � namely, Theory of Clinical Medicine together with its subordinate Theory of Clinical Research. The leit motif in all of this is Miettinen�s perception of the need, and opportunity, to bring major improvements into clinical medicine in this Information Age, now that theoretical progress has made feasible the development of practice-guiding Expert Systems for it. Parts of this text constitute essential reading for whoever is expected, or otherwise inclined, to study � or teach � �clinical epidemiology,� and the same is true of those who set policy for the education of future clinicians; but practically all of it is essential reading for future � and current � academics in the various disciplines of clinical medicine.� After all, the text is the result of a concentrated effort, over a half-century no less, to really understand both clinical and community medicine and the research to advance the knowledge-base of these.� Research epidemiologists, too, will find this text interesting and instructive.Typham this is the title: Up from Clinical Epidemiology & EBM