Health of People, Places and Planet. Reflections based on Tony McMichael's four decades of contribution to epidemiological understanding

This book has three main goals. The first is to celebrate the work of a great public health figure, the late A.J. (Tony) McMichael (1942-2014). The second is to position contemporary public health issues in an interdisciplinary context and in ways that highlight the interdependency between the envir...

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Other Authors: D. Butler, Colin (Editor), Dixon, Jane (Editor), G. Capon, Anthony (Editor)
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Published: ANU Press 2015
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