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