Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality, Richard G. Wilkinson: Routledge, London (1996) 255 pp. ISBN 0-415-09235-3 £ 13 99

Book Review Special: Unhealthy Societies

Book Review Special: Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality. R. G. WILKINSON, (1996). Routledge, London. Pp. xi+255, £13.99 paperback. ISBN 0-415-09235-3

✍ David Fryer 📂 Article 📅 1998 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 65 KB

## This interdisciplinary book is essentially a prolonged meditation upon what Richard Wilkinson regards as `one of the most powerful in¯uences on the health of whole populations in the developed world to have come to light' (p. 4): `a strong international relationship between income distribution a