Edited by Amy J. Schulz and Leith Mullings. 423 pp. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2006. $60. ISBN 978-0-7879-7663-7.
Disparities in health resulting from social class, race or ethnicgroup, and sex have long been viewed as the elephant in theroom of public health practice and discourse. But in fact, sooften has the fundamental determining role of these social realitiesbeen exposed — even in high-profile clinical journalssuch as this one — that readers may feel a degree of ennuiat further documentation of their magnitude and importance.This book is therefore welcome, as editors Amy J. Schulz andLeith Mullings strive to move beyond the description of thesedisparities to an understanding of their underlying . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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