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(The Johns Hopkins Series in Psychiatry and Neuroscience.) Edited by Juan E. Mezzich, Miguel R. Jorge, and Ihsan M. Salloum. 612 pp. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. $65. ISBN 0-8018-4615-3.

Americans enjoy big novels, biographies, and textbooks. Now they have a big book on psychiatric epidemiology. The title may represent a limitation, since with the present tendency for psychiatry to cuddle up to the neurosciences it would be more au courant to speak of neuroepidemiology. Perhaps this is a selling point. This is a big book, but is it really a book at all? It is a collection of published pieces, with commentaries and short summaries of other articles. It is not the proceedings of a conference, or a Festschrift, or the invited views of experts on a fixed topic. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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