Morris's Seven Uses 1957

Many of you know that Shelly and I worked out the idea of epidemiology's "five main rubrics" in response to the seven uses. You have seen me use the five main rubrics as an organizational framework of theories, concepts, research approaches, and empirical evidence (e.g., in chapters and presentations). These same five rubrics often have been used as outlined in the "scholarly literature review" chapters os student theses and dissertations (typically, "Chapter Two material").

You should read Morris's 1957 essay, widely available in e-form via Boolean search for [his surname & "Uses of  Epidemiology"], as well as his later book (on the shelf in ELCID, I think).

But here is a link to Michael Shepherd (deceased best friend of Mort Kramer) and Brian Cooper's application of the seven uses as an organizational outline of material in a very useful early review of progress in what we now call neuropsychiatric epidemiology.

If you can, commit the seven uses to memory and they will serve you well, giving more examples to hang on the deliberately reduced form summary ("model") we crafted for the "five main rubrics," thinking that it is easier to remember five logically sequenced things than to recall seven somewhat disparate "uses." You be the judge.

http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/27/4/277

On the rubrics:

http://www.pitt.edu/~super7/29011-30001/29241.ppt

Our first try:
http://www.epi.msu.edu/janthony/Epidemiology%20and%20its%20Rubrics.pdf