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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:684
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Inequality & Health Essay Book Reviews

Mind the gap—hierarchies, health and human evolution

Johan P Mackenbach

Department of Public Health, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. E-mail: mackenbach@mgz.fgg.eur.nl

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Darwinism Today: Mind the Gap. Richard Wilkinson. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000, pp. 70, £7.99. ISBN: 029764686.

‘Bien étonnés de se trouver ensemble’—this book about income inequality and its health effects was published in a series called Darwinism Today, so the first thing I did was try to find out what the connection between the two is. ‘Evolutionary theory can help’, Wilkinson writes, ‘by clarifying not only why we are sensitive to—and stressed by—particular dimensions of social life, but also why . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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