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Edited by Ming T. Tsuang, Mauricio Tohen, and Gwendolyn E.P. Zahner. 483 pp. New York, John Wiley, 1995. $59.95. ISBN 0-471-59375-3.

This book, written in response to requests from graduate students in the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program at Harvard, deals with a very important subject. Psychiatric epidemiology attempts to account for the incidence, prevalence, severity, course, outcome, and response to intervention of psychiatric disorders in terms of social, epidemiologic, and demographic factors, including sex, race, age, and level of education. One of the goals of such investigation is to turn up important clues to the cause and pathogenesis of psychiatric disorders. Much has been learned in this field over the past 25 to 30 years, some of which might ultimately provide . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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