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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on May 20, 2008
American Journal of Epidemiology 2008 168(1):115-118; doi:10.1093/aje/kwn131
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2008. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

BOOK REVIEW

The Health of Populations: General Theories and Particular Realities. First Edition

By Stephen J. Kunitz

José A. Tapia Granados

Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2054

(e-mail: jatapia@umich.edu)

ISBN-10 0195308077, ISBN-13 978-0195308075, Oxford University Press, New York, New York (Telephone: 800-445-9714, Fax: 919-677-1303, E-mail: custserv.us@oup.com, World Wide Web: http://www.oup.com/us/), 2006, 304 pp., $49.95

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Among major works on population health, this one by Stephen Kunitz belongs in the same general category as those by McKeown (1), Riley (2), Wilkinson (3), Cairns (4), and Easterlin (5). Some of those authors, such as McKeown and Wilkinson, would fit Isaiah Berlin's definition of hedgehogs (6). Kunitz declares himself to be a fox.

In the image of the intellectual world developed by Berlin in The Hedgehog and the Fox (6), hedgehogs are those who know one big and important thing, while foxes are those who know many things, each one perhaps of not that much importance in itself. In The Health of Populations, Kunitz substantiates his claim to foxhood by examining many things; he believes "big theories" on population health always have shortcomings and exceptions. He draws on sources from a wide variety . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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