War and Public Health
2nd ed, 480 pp, $49.99
New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-531127-3
- Karen Hein, MD, ReviewerDepartments of Epidemiology & Population Health and Clinical PediatricsAlbert Einstein College of MedicineNew York, New York khein@hughes.net
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- KEYWORDS:
- PUBLIC HEALTH
- WAR
- WORLD HEALTH
Often a second edition of a book is not worthy of special note or review. However, War and Public Health is an exception. The ideas and cases presented a decade ago were equally relevant, but inclusion of recent world events makes this second edition all the more useful, timely, and important.
I was drawn to this book because of the editors' reputations as leaders for generations of individuals wanting to be involved in improving the health of others in the world. Levy and Sidel could have written this book themselves, but they chose to edit a volume including the writings of many other major leaders in a variety of fields and disciplines, creating a chorus rather than a duo of strong voices. They have orchestrated a coherent volume with a disciplined approach to uniformity in certain aspects of the presentations (short, boxed, punchy points or stories; chapters with clear overviews, …
