There is widespread recognition that the most powerful determinants of health today are to be found in social economic and cultural circumstances. These include: ecnomic growth income distribution consumption work oganisation unemployment and job insecurity social and family structure education and deprivation and they are all aspects of 'social organisation'. In ^Health and Social Organisation leading British and North American researchers who bring together an invaluable collection of data on these issues draw from the social sciences epidemiology and biology.