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edited by John C. Norman, 333 pp, $6.95, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1969.

Amasa B. Ford, MD, Reviewer
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland

JAMA. 1970;212(2):324.

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Poverty and Health: A Sociological Analysis, edited by John Kosa, Aaron Antonovsky, and Irving K. Zola, 449 pp, $12.50, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.

If any American physician still doubts that there are thousands of poor people in this country who badly need health services which they can not obtain, these two books will dispel his doubts. The first is a sheaf of communiques from a battlefront. As in a Shakespearian history play, we hear alarms and excursions, conferences of generals, ringing battle cries, and over all a sense of confusion and uncertainty as to where the enemy really is. In strong contrast, Poverty and Health looks at the scene from a scholarly distance, defining and categorizing problems, and attempting general conclusions. Both books are collections of essays, both tackle contemporary issues with energy and imagination, and both raise complex questions amid which some optimists detect the beginnings of a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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