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International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 33, Number 3, pp. 618-619
IJE vol.33 no.3 © International Epidemiological Association 2004; all rights reserved.

Book Review

Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches. Davey Smith G (ed.). Bristol: The Policy Press, 2003, pp. 592, £25.00 (PB) ISBN: 1-86134-322-1, £55.00 (HB) ISBN: 1-86134-323-X.

George A Kaplan

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By my count, George Davey Smith (GDS)—the Chair of Clinical Epidemiology in the Department of Social Medicine and Head of the Division of Epidemiology at the University of Bristol—has published well over 400 scientific publications, books, and chapters, around 25–30 per year since receiving his epidemiological training. Thus, there are few epidemiologists who are not aware of his work, although with such a prolific corpus of publications, it is likely that each of our views of GDS is a bit like the blind men and the elephant.

In reprinting 39 papers in a single location, Health Inequalities: Lifecourse Approaches allows us to see some common threads in this body of work. The volume consists of these papers, co-authored with 42 others, commentary by GDS, some wonderful photographs and illustrations, and a short essay occasioned by a traffic accident in Nicaragua. The common threads, as the title suggests, are health inequalities . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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