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International Journal of Epidemiology 2009 38(3):617-618; doi:10.1093/ije/dyp230
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2009; all rights reserved.

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Intergenerational influences on health: how far back do we have to go?

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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.

They may not mean to, but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had.

And add some extra, just for you1

The publication of Philip Larkin's "This be the verse" in his collection "High Windows" in 1974 generated considerable disapproval from some quarters of the British press. It was unthinkable that a Sunday newspaper would actually print the words, and of course the coy descriptions led me to read through the whole book in a local shop and buy a recording of . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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