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By Trudy Ann Karlson and Stephen W. Hargarten. 172 pp., illustrated. New Brunswick, N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1997. $24.95. ISBN 0-8135-2421-0.

Trudy Karlson is an injury epidemiologist and Stephen Hargarten an emergency medicine physician, both public health professionals who have turned their attention to firearms in the belief that the science of injury control could be usefully applied to reducing the number and severity of gunshot injuries. They offer this work as "the book we wished we had had when we were starting out — a primer on how guns work, how they cause injury, and on strategies based on the public health perspective for change."

Their faith in this approach is based on an analogy with motor vehicle safety. The . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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