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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on November 9, 2005
American Journal of Epidemiology 2006 163(1):97-98; doi:10.1093/aje/kwj014
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American Journal of Epidemiology Copyright © 2005 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health All rights reserved; printed in U.S.A.

Book Review

Epidemiology and Culture By James A. Trostle

ISBN 0-521-79050-6, Cambridge University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 845-353-7500, Fax: 845-353-4141, Website: http://www.cambridge.org/us/), 2005, 208 pp., $70.00 (Hardback)

Raymond Massé

Département d'anthropologie, Université Laval, Québec City, Québec G1K 7P4, Canada

(e-mail: raymond.masse@ant.ulaval.ca)

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This book is about creating conversations and interdisciplinary dialogue between epidemiology and medical anthropology. In recent decades, an increasing number of public health institutions have appealed to specialists of the "cultural factor" to help them enhance their understanding of risk factors. At the same time, many medical anthropologists recognize that the two disciplines share an interest in how disease and risks factors vary in time and space among different populations, as well as within subpopulations of a single country. In this book, Trostle analyzes the origins of an integrated approach in anthropology and epidemiology, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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