Volume 45, Number 12 · July 16, 1998
Life & Death on the Social Ladder
By Helen Epstein
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality
by Richard G. Wilkinson
Routledge, 255 pp., $20.99 (paper)
Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life
by Robert Karasek, by Töres Theorell
Basic Books, 381 pp., $16.00 (paper)
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping
by Robert M. Sapolsky
W.H. Freeman, 368 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Power of Clan: The Influence of Human Relationships on Heart Disease
by Stewart Wolf, by John G. Bruhn
Transaction, 192 pp., $21.95 (paper)
Last October I went for a walk in Sighthill Cemetery on the outskirts of Glas-gow. Glasgow is a gloomy Victorian city of silent monuments in green squares and heavy stone buildings with streaks of damp trailing from their windows like tears. It was a time of year when one is very aware of Scotland's winter darkness closing in. Even at mid-day, in bright sunshine, a reddish haze hung in the air around the weathered, lichen-stained graves.
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