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Edited by Helen E. Sheehan and Richard P. Wedeen. 277 pp., illustrated. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1993. $45. ISBN 0-8135-1990-X.

One of the attractions of occupational and environmental medicine is that it is directly involved with important social and public health issues. The practice of occupational and environmental medicine affects not only the health of individual patients but also the financial health of corporations. This fiscal concern ensures that although a practitioner's recommendations may not be followed, they will not be ignored. Advances in the field have been directly affected by the conflict between costs and benefits. This book contains many stories about the recognition of occupational and environmental diseases and the often rocky path to their control.

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