International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:49-53
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Two lives, three legs, one journey: a retrospective appreciation of Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser
a Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College, 2900 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11210, USA and Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA. E-mail: go10@columbia.edu
b Center for the History & Ethics of Public Health, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA. E-mail: dr289@columbia.edu
In their first edition of Sociology in Medicine, Mervyn Susser and William Watson, his collaborator, noted:
‘The proponents of a genetic cause of the unequal distribution of intelligence in the social classes have long argued their case with the proponents of the environmental cause... But whatever effects innate intelligence may have on the social mobility of individuals, current theories in genetics cannot by themselves account satisfactorily for the observed class distribution of low intelligence.’1
This observation drew upon work Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser had published in 1960, barely four years after their arrival in Britain from South Africa and three years after receiving positions at the University of Manchester.2–5 Using a grant awarded to Zena, they had conducted a follow-up study of a randomly selected sample of young adults drawn from a population who, as children, had been determined by their schools to be educationally subnormal (ESN). Without
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