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J Epidemiol Community Health 2004;58:738-742 doi:10.1136/jech.2004.021741
  • Continuing professional education

Five American authors on wealth, poverty, and inequality

  1. Ichiro Kawachi1,
  2. Philippa Howden Chapman2
  1. 1Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA
  2. 2Department of Public Health, Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand
  1. Correspondence to:
 Professor I Kawachi
 Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA; Ichiro.Kawachichanning.harvard.edu
  • Accepted 21 April 2004

Abstract

There is much to be gleaned from novels concerning the links between wealth and power, inequality and corruption, poverty and illness. A student of social epidemiology will profit as much from close reading of these classics as from consulting textbooks on social stratification.

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