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Table of Contents

Organizers' Introduction to the Conference on Social Determinants of Health and Disease

Mark Siegler, Richard Allen Epstein
pp. S1-S8
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0074
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Understanding Social Inequalities in Health

M. G. Marmot
pp. S9-S23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0070
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Secular Trends in Physiological Capital: Implications for Equity in Health Care

Robert William Fogel
pp. S24-S38
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0066
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Social Isolation and Health, with an Emphasis on Underlying Mechanisms

John T. Cacioppo, Louise C. Hawkley
pp. S39-S52
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0063
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The Neighborhood Context of Well-Being

Robert J. Sampson
pp. S53-S64
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0073
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Are There Social Determinants of Health and Disease?

Ronald A. Thisted
pp. S65-S73
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0076
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Synthesis of Scientific Disciplines in Pursuit of Health: The Interactive Biopsychosocial Model

Stacy Tessler Lindau, Edward O. Laumann, Wendy Levinson, Linda J. Waite
pp. S74-S86
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0069
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The Long-Run Growth in Obesity as a Function of Technological Change

Tomas J. Philipson, Richard A. Posner
pp. S87-S107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0072
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Diminishing Returns?: The Costs and Benefits of Improving Health

Kevin M. Murphy, Robert H. Topel
pp. S108-S128
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0077
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Is Medical Research Cost Effective?: Response to Murphy and Topel

Mark Siegler, Alix Weisfeld, David Cronin
pp. S129-S137
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0075
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Let the Shoemaker Stick to His Last: A Defense of the "Old" Public Health

Richard Allen Epstein
pp. S138-S159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0065
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The Politics of Public Health: A Response to Epstein

Larry O. Gostin, Maxwell Gregg Bloche
pp. S160-S175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0067
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Private Wealth and Public Health: A Critique of Richard Epstein's Defense of the "Old" Public Health

William J. Novak
pp. S176-S198
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0071
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The Scope and Limits of Public Health Law

Mark A. Hall
pp. S199-S209
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0068
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Contributors

pp. S210-S213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0064
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