Volume 48, Number 6 · April 12, 2001
Time of Indifference
By Helen Epstein
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
Laurie Garrett
Hyperion, 754 pp., $30.00
Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
edited by Jim Yong Kim, Joyce V. Millen, Alec Irwin, and John Gershman
Common Courage Press, 584 pp., $29.95 (paper)
Poverty, Inequality, and Health
edited by David A. Leon and Gill Walt
Oxford University Press, 358 pp., $55.00 (paper)
During the cholera epidemic of 1849, Henry Mayhew, the great observer of London life, visited the district of Bermondsey south of the Thames. He wrote that the river water the residents drank and bathed in
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