Contents:
1. Introduction
Helen Macbeth and Prakash Shetty 2. Defining the Ethnic Group; Important and Impossible
Helen Macbeth 3. Ethnicity and Race as Epidemiological Variables: Centrality of Purpose and Context
Raj Bhopal 4. The Contribution of Socioeconomic Position to Health Differentials Between Ethnic Groups: Evidence from the US and Britain
James Nazroo and George Davey Smith 5. Health: An Elusive Concept
Gilbert Lewis 6. Human Inbreeding: A Familiar Story Full of Surprises
Alan Bittles et al. 7. The Inherited Disorders of Haemoglobin
David J. Weatherall 8. Genetic Variation and Ethnic Variablility in Disease Risk
Ryk Ward 9. Approaches to Investigating the Genetic Basis of Ethnic Differences in Disease Risk
Paul McKeigue 10. Diabetes, Ancestral Diets and Dairy Foods: An Evolutionary Perspective on Population Differences In Susceptibility to Diabetes
Anthony J. McMichael 11. Variations in Health and Disease: Race, Ethnicity or 'Nutritional Transition'?
Prakash Shetty 12. Ethnic Variation and Cardiovascular Disease
Sonia S. Anand and Salim Yusuf 13. Ethnicity and the Risk of Cancer
D. Max Parkin 14. 'Culture' in the Field of Race and Mental Health
Roland Littlewood 15. Sexual Health and Ethnicity
Kaye Wellings and K. A. Fenton 16. Challenges and Policy Implications of Ethnic Diversity and Health
Rasaratnam Balarajan