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With a freely available health service how is it that successive generations of families in poor circumstances continue to suffer deprivation in health? This is the question which opens the book and instigated the study which it describes. The writers are both medical sociologists. Their enquiry is currently a very topical one, much of the information and conclusions reached are of general interest, and sometimes relevant to the specific issues of neglect and non-accidental injury.