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Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality / Richard Wilkinson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Description: xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415092353
  • 9780415092357
  • 0415092345
  • 9780415092340
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461
LOC classification:
  • RA418. W45 1996
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: the social economy of health -- 2. Health becomes a social science -- 3. Rising life expectancy and the epidemiological transition -- 4. The problem of health inequalities -- 5. Income distribution and health -- 6. A small town in the USA, wartime Britain, Eastern Europe and Japan -- 7. An anthropology of social cohesion -- 8. The symptoms of disintegration -- 9. The psychosocial causes of illness -- 10. Baboons, civil servants and children's height -- 11. Social capital: putting Humpty together again -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 306.461 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A172106B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and index.

List of illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: the social economy of health -- 2. Health becomes a social science -- 3. Rising life expectancy and the epidemiological transition -- 4. The problem of health inequalities -- 5. Income distribution and health -- 6. A small town in the USA, wartime Britain, Eastern Europe and Japan -- 7. An anthropology of social cohesion -- 8. The symptoms of disintegration -- 9. The psychosocial causes of illness -- 10. Baboons, civil servants and children's height -- 11. Social capital: putting Humpty together again -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.

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