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Edited by Lisa F. Berkman and Ichiro Kawachi. 391 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. $65. ISBN 0-19-508331-8.

This book is an extraordinary work of scholarship. The concepts and findings set forth so lucidly in Social Epidemiology help to clarify puzzling phenomena in medical practice and investigation. It is remarkably free of jargon and should prove accessible to every physician. To my knowledge, this is the first textbook in the new field. Its excellence provides assurance that it will become a classic.

Some Journal readers may wonder what social epidemiology is. Berkman and Kawachi define it as "the branch of epidemiology that studies the social distribution and social determinants of health." The field incorporates the concepts and methods . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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