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International Journal of Epidemiology 2001;30:44-46
© International Epidemiological Association 2001

Point-Counterpoint

Commentary: Society, biology and the logic of social epidemiology

Nancy Krieger

Department of Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. E-mail: nkrieger@hsph.harvard.edu

Perhaps one useful response to the thesis advanced by Zielhuis and Kiemeney, summed up in the article's title, ‘Social epidemiology? No way’,1 can be provided by four evidence-based linked logical arguments.2–17 These are:

Argument #1

  • Thesis 1: People are social beings who live in socially-constituted societies.
  • Thesis 2: People are biological organisms, Homo sapiens.
  • Deduction: People live in the world simultaneously as social and biological beings.

Argument #2

  • Thesis 1: Expression of biological traits depends on the conditions under which biological organisms live, including their interactions with other . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Argument #3

Argument #4

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