American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on February 11, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 169(6):780; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp031
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Understanding Environmental Health: How We Live in the World
By Nancy Irwin Maxwell
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21205
(e-mail: rwhite@jhsph.edu)
ISBN-13: 978-0-7637-3318-6, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc., Sudbury, Massachusetts (Telephone: 800-832-0034, FAX: 978-443-8000, E-mail: info@jbpub.com), 2009, 378 pp., $69.95 Softcover
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Although numerous graduate-level texts on the subject of environmental health are available, Understanding Environmental Health by Nancy Irwin Maxwell is distinctive for its focus on graduate public health students as the intended target audience, as well as for its approach to presenting content. The text has evolved from the author's experiences in teaching introductory courses in environmental health to both Master of Public Health