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Edited by Michael Marmot and Paul Elliott. 547 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. $89. ISBN 0-19-262124-6.

This massive book of more than 500 pages, with 50 contributors, is a fitting tribute to the work of Geoffrey Rose, who retired two years ago from the position of professor of epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Rose's contribution to epidemiology and public health includes the restatement of the key idea that the major diseases affecting public health are determined by the nature of society as a whole, not by the behavior of a few people at high risk. As well as an eminent epidemiologist, he was a practicing clinician and brought the human touch . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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