Behavioral and social scientists continue to furnish us with information, practices and perspectives regarding human sufferers and their treatment. Their contributions take many forms and come in various sizes. Two distinct varieties are appraised forthwith.

To accomplish meaningful empirical research, an investigator must have the talent to ask limited but important questions and the ingenuity to produce limited but important answers. Decades before the current enthusiasm for, and unrest concerning, the presuppositions of social psychiatry, H. Warren Dunham was trying to describe and explain the base line statistics of “mental disorders” in the urban population of this country (Mental Disorders in Urban Areas [1939] with R.E.L. Faris). Community and Schizophrenia updates many of the concepts and methods that appeared in the earlier work. It contains a series of reports directed at the comparison of the 1958 incidence rate of schizophrenia in two subcommunities and by social class in the City of Detroit. The