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IJE Advance Access published online on May 2, 2008
International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dyn075
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Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association © The Author 2008; all rights reserved.

Book Review

War and Public Health. 2nd edition. BS Levy and VW Sidel (eds).

Sheila M Bird and Clive B Fairweather

E-mail: sheila.bird@mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk

War and Public Health. 2nd edition. BS Levy and VW Sidel (eds). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 in collaboration with the American Public Health Association, pp. 485 (paperback), £29.99. ISBN: 978–0–19–531127-3.

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This is not a book to be read cosily by the fire. Rather it should be absorbed standing on both feet, in small digestible chunks, preferably over several months. Readers in the United States, and particularly supporters of George W Bush, are advised to don a hair-shirt before embarking on the harrowing journey this book will take them on.

In their introduction, Levy and Sidel set out three roles for public health professionals on the health effects of war and on factors that may cause . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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