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By Mary E. Wilson. 769 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1991. $95. ISBN 0-19-504385-5.

In writing this book, Wilson took on a major challenge: to describe the global geography of infectious diseases. As she points out in the preface, "This is the book I sought ten years ago and could not find." In fact, Professor Brian Maegraith of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine produced an earlier attempt (Exotic Diseases in Practice. London: Heinemann, 1965). Wilson's book results from a remarkable attempt to deal with a difficult task. Its subject -- the geographic distribution of disease -- may be fundamentally impossible to approach scientifically, not only because information is nonexistent in many cases, but . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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