The Burden of Prudence – Industrialisation and Disease
Thomas McKeown, 17 December 1981
Western Diseases: Their Emergence and Prevention
edited by H.C. Trowell and D.P. Burkitt.
Arnold, 456 pp., £28.50, March 1981,0 7131 4373 8 Show More
edited by H.C. Trowell and D.P. Burkitt.
Arnold, 456 pp., £28.50, March 1981,
The Diseases of Civilisation
by Brain Inglis.
Hodder, 371 pp., £10.95, September 1981,0 340 21717 0 Show More
by Brain Inglis.
Hodder, 371 pp., £10.95, September 1981,
“... are expressed in The Diseases of Civilisation, the latest in the series of books in which Brian Inglis has examined orthodox and unorthodox forms of medicine. His conclusions are based on a careful, if selective examination of the literature on some of the common causes of sickness and death, including heart disease, cancer, mental illness and infectious ... ”