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Preventive Medicine and the Environment

Environmental Health.

Edited by P. Walton Purdom. Pp. xiv + 584. (Academic: New York and London, September 1971.) $19.50; £9.10.

Epidemiology as Medical Ecology.

By W. Le Riche and J. Milner. Pp. ix + 460. (Churchill Livingstone: Edinburgh and London, 1971.) £6.

Just Consequences.

Edited by Robert Waller. (A Study of Contemporary Health Problems in Relation to Nutrition which suggests that there is a New Pattern of Diseases in Western Civilization.) (Charles Knight: London, November 1971.) £2.50.

Marine Ecology: Environmental Factors,

Vol. 1, Part 2. Edited by O. Vinne. Pp. 576. (Wiley-Interscience: London, 1971.)

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JONES, W. Preventive Medicine and the Environment. Nature 237, 293–294 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1038/237293a0

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