BRIEF REPORT: Sociometric Isolation and the Incidence of Physical Disease

Abstract

In noting the frequency with which one spouse immediately followed the other spouse in death, J. L. Moreno remarked that "death comes from without, not from within." This remark is demonstrated in findings of a recent study by epidemiologists Peggy Reynolds and George A. Kaplan of the California Department of Health Services in Berkeley that is reported in Science News, March 15, 1986.