TY - JOUR
AU - Feldberg, Georgina
AB - Book Reviews 1061 ter Press, 2003. xiv, 466 pp. $95.00, ISBN 1- current ideas. What we believe about the un- 58046-127-1.) derlying nature of coronary heart disease and its causes has changed and will surely change This book starts with the history of ideas again. But clearly one important change over the twentieth century has been the notion that about probability, statistics, and vital statistics there are risk factors for coronary heart and and then moves to consider patterns of disease other diseases. and death in early twentieth-century urban settings, mostly in New York City, making Joel D. Howell particularly good use of life insurance studies. University of Michigan The author sees four historical changes as nec- Ann Arbor, Michigan essary for creating current ideas about risk fac- tors and disease: the invention of probabilistic Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical In- thinking and the gathering of statistical data, spection and the Shaping of the Modern Indus- the idea that healthy life-styles will improve trial Labor Force. By Amy L. Fairchild. population health, the use of educational ini- (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, tiatives to encourage those life-styles, and the 2003. xvi, 385 pp. $48.00, ISBN 0-8018-7080- acceptance of 
TI - Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force.By Amy L. Fairchild. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. xvi, 385 pp. $48.00, ISBN 0-8018-7080- 1.)
JO - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.2307/3662959
DA - 2004-12-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/science-at-the-borders-immigrant-medical-inspection-and-the-shaping-of-VVRIZV9FL9
SP - 1061
EP - 1062
VL - 91
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -