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IJE Advance Access originally published online on September 10, 2007
International Journal of Epidemiology 2007 36(5):1152-1153; doi:10.1093/ije/dym175
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An Activist's Guide to (Social) Epidemiology. Julie G Cwikel

J Michael Oakes

E-mail: oakes007@umn.edu

An Activist's Guide to (Social) Epidemiology. Julie G Cwikel. Social Epidemiology: Strategies for Public Health Activism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006, $47.50 ISBN: 0-231-10048-5.

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Professor Julie C Cwikel's comprehensive new text, Social Epidemiology: Strategies for Public Health Activism,1 has some insightful and useful parts, but I cannot recommend it as text for teaching or advancing social epidemiology per se. While one must applaud Cwikel's effort to synthesize social work and activism with public health research, there is not enough critical and specific attention to social epidemiology as a distinct subdiscipline for my taste. On one hand, I am duly impressed with the range of topics Cwikel covers—everything from HIV to EMF to injury prevention—and I both appreciate and support her approach to improving the health of the disadvantaged through evidence-based social interventions. On the other hand, the text lacks rigor, empirical support, and critical commentary, and its suggested path for social epidemiology . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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