Edited by Timothy Evans, Margaret Whitehead, Finn Diderichsen, Abbas Bhuiya, and Meg Wirth. 368 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. $37.95. ISBN 0-19-513740-X.
Counters and classifiers of deaths and diseases, including demographersand epidemiologists, have long been fascinated with the statisticalregularities of social inequalities in morbidity and mortality.The earliest studies of social class and mortality coincidedwith the development of the life table in the 1600s. Interestin the subject has waxed and waned over the centuries, stimulatedin part by economic conditions and political movements. In thecontext of growing economic inequalities during the past decade,the demise of the Soviet Union, and the dominance of capitalismunder the military and ideological leadership of the UnitedStates, academic interest in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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