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Wolf and Bruhn report on a longitudinal epidemiological study of the factors influencing the incidence of coronary heart disease in Roseto, Pennsylvania, from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s. Comparisons were made with four control communities in close geographic proximity. The study demonstrates that a remarkably low initial incidence of coronary heart disease in Roseto was influenced negatively over the years by a transition from immigrant community values and family traditions to those of a highly industrialized, technological, and individualized US society. This book represents a sound and powerful blend of medical and social science, with philosophical foundations, hypothesis, analysis of alternate hypotheses, methodology, data analysis, and conclusions carefully addressed... An important acquisition for libraries serving education and research in medicine, medical sociology, public health, and public policy. Advanced undergraduate through professional. </p> --R. E. Darnell, <em>Choice</em></p> [<em>The Power of Clan</em>] is meticulous, tenacious, dedicated, if not Herculean. </p> --Robert S. Eliot, M.D., clinical professor of medicine. University of Nebraska's Medical Center</p> <em>The Power of Clan </em>will stimulate and revive discussion on the effects of personal relationships on health. </p> --<em>Annals of Internal Medicine </em></p> <em>The Power of Clan </em>describes a large scale, longitudinal, multidisciplinary study relating social conditions and heart disease. . . . This well-written and well-documented book interweaves fascinating social history, medical statistics, and research rationale. It should be read by all segments of the health care establishment. </p> --Chester M. Pierce, <em>Physchosomatic Medicine </em></p>

<p> Wolf and Bruhn report on a longitudinal epidemiological study of the factors influencing the incidence of coronary heart disease in Roseto, Pennsylvania, from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s. Comparisons were made with four control communities in close geographic proximity. The study demonstrates that a remarkably low initial incidence of coronary heart disease in Roseto was influenced negatively over the years by a transition from immigrant community values and family traditions to those of a highly industrialized, technological, and individualized US society. This book represents a sound and powerful blend of medical and social science, with philosophical foundations, hypothesis, analysis of alternate hypotheses, methodology, data analysis, and conclusions carefully addressed... An important acquisition for libraries serving education and research in medicine, medical sociology, public health, and public policy. Advanced undergraduate through professional. <p> --R. E. Darnell, Choice

Wolf and Bruhn report on a longitudinal epidemiological study of the factors influencing the incidence of coronary heart disease in Roseto, Pennsylvania, from the early 1960s to the mid 1980s. Comparisons were made with four control communities in close geographic proximity. The study demonstrates that a remarkably low initial incidence of coronary heart disease in Roseto was influenced negatively over the years by a transition from immigrant community values and family traditions to those of a highly industrialized, technological, and individualized US society. This book represents a sound and powerful blend of medical and social science, with philosophical foundations, hypothesis, analysis of alternate hypotheses, methodology, data analysis, and conclusions carefully addressed... An important acquisition for libraries serving education and research in medicine, medical sociology, public health, and public policy. Advanced undergraduate through professional. --R. E. Darnell, Choice [The Power of Clan] is meticulous, tenacious, dedicated, if not Herculean. --Robert S. Eliot, M.D., clinical professor of medicine. University of Nebraska's Medical Center

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Stewart Wolf (1914-2005) was professor of medicine at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia and director of the Totts Gap Medical Research Laboratories. Before his tenure at Temple University, he headed the department of medicine at the University of Oklahoma. He authored, edited, or co-authored numerous books, including Social Environment and Health, The Stomach, and Educating Doctors. John G. Bruhn is vice president for Academic Affairs and Research at University of Texas, El Paso

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