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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:1265-1267
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Essay Review

Policing the heart

David Wainwright

MRC Health Services Research Collaboration, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK.

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Stress and the Heart: Psychosocial Pathways and Coronary Heart Disease. Stephen A Stansfeld and Michael G Marmot (eds). London: BMJ Books, 2002, pp. 304, £30.00. ISBN: 0–7279–1277–1.

The Western literary tradition is awash with protagonists whose adverse life experiences have led to an untimely death from ‘heartbreak’. In King Lear, Gloucester’s flaw’d heart bursts as a result of the conflicting passions of joy and grief, and Lear himself dies of a broken heart following the murder of his daughter Cordelia. Where the arts have led, science is attempting to follow. This edited book draws together many of the leading researchers in the field to produce a comprehensive yet accessible account of current empirical and theoretical evidence linking a range of psycho-social factors to social variations in coronary heart disease (CHD). Inevitably, there is some overlap between the 16 chapters, which coupled with the sheer volume of empirical evidence and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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