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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 155, No. 1 : 101-102
Copyright © 2002 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

BOOK REVIEWS

Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease: Past Patterns, Uncertain Futures

John M. Last

Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1H 8M5

In Human Frontiers, Environments and Disease (1Go), Tony McMichael explores how changes in human biology, culture, and the environment have influenced patterns of health and disease over many millennia. His perspective is ecologic and integrative, transcending conventional disciplinary boundaries. The book is steeped in epidemiology, richly blended with ecology, evolutionary biology, paleontology, population dynamics, history, complexity theory, and much else, all of it spiced with literary and cultural insights. It is written gracefully and with clarity that is rare in monographs on medical science. Its economy of words (a sure sign of a skilled literary craftsman) requires concentrated attention, and the epidemiology is unobtrusive.

There are many important messages in this volume. One is about the way we conduct science:

During the twentieth century, we humans doubled our average life expectancy, quadrupled the size of our population, increased . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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