HEALTH AND THE RISE OF CIVILIZATION<i> by Mark Nathan Cohen Ph.D. (Yale University Press: $29.95; 320 pp.) </i>

” . . . a well-written, scrupulously documented, finely reasonsed treatise that will shake up prejudices, blast icons and broaden horizons. If you want to read something that will make you think, reflect and reconsider, Cohen’s “Health and the Rise of Civilization”

is for you.