Book Reviews

The books listed below are reviewed in the French edition of Population 4, 2014.
Book review editor: Francisco Muñoz-Pérez
Assisted by Dominique Diguet, INED documentation department

Theme in this issue coordinated by Damien Bricard, Nadine Ouellette and Aïda Solé-Auró
Mortality, health, epidemiology Research Unit, INED

Health and society

Patrice Debré, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, Vie et mort des épidémies, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2013, 288 p. Reviewed by Aline Désesquelles

Caroline Huyard, Rare. Sur la cause politique des maladies peu fréquentes, Paris, Éditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2012, 252 p.
Reviewed by Gil Bellis

Steven H. Woolf, Laudan Aron (eds.), U.S. Health in International Perspective. Shorter Lives, Poorer Health, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, Washington DC, The National Academies Press, 2013, XXV-394 p.
Reviewed by Magali Barbieri

Johan P. Mackenbach, Martin McKee (eds.), Successes and Failures of Health Policy in Europe: Four Decades of Divergent Trends and Converging Challenges, Buckingham, Open University Press, 2013, 371 p.
Reviewed by Damien Bricard

Jean-Marie Robine, Carol Jagger, Eileen M. Crimmins (eds.), Healthy Longevity: A Global Approach, New York, Springer (Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics Series, volume 33), 2013, 382 p.
Reviewed by Nadine Ouellette

Francesca Colombo, Yuki Murakami (eds.), A Good Life in Old Age? Monitoring and Improving Quality in Long-Term Care, Paris, OECD Health Policy Studies/European Commission, 2013, 263 p.
Reviewed by Aïda Solé-Auró

François Bourdillon, Marie Mesnil (eds.), Mieux prendre en compte la santé des femmes, Paris, Éditions de Santé & Presses de Sciences Po/Séminaires, 2013, 127 p.
Reviewed by Sophie Le Cœur

Françoise Héritier, Sida, un défi anthropologique. Paris, Les Belles lettres, 2013, 270 p.
Reviewed by Meoïn Hagège

Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett, Pourquoi l’égalité est meilleure pour tous, Paris, Les Petits matins-Institut Veblen, 2013, 512 p. [French translation of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better, London, Allen Lane, 352 p.]
Reviewed by Stéphane Legleye