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By Théodore H. MacDonald. 297 pp. Abingdon, England, Radcliffe, 2005. $65. ISBN 1-85775-769-6.

What would the state of your health be if you had to live on less than $1 a day? Théodore MacDonald does not ask this question directly, yet it haunts his book, which documents how 1.9 billion people deal with the issue daily.

MacDonald's well-written account of the plight of too many people stirs outrage, as it should, in any conscientious physician. Its purpose, like that of any creditable clinical report, is reasoned engagement, not the venting of emotion. The book reads like a bedside chart, with accurate detail on the patient's condition leading to a clear sense of cause . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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