Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality / Richard Wilkinson.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1996Description: xi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415092353
- 9780415092357
- 0415092345
- 9780415092340
- 306.461
- RA418. W45 1996
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306.461 WAR Contemporary health studies : an introduction / | 306.461 WEI The sociology of health, illness, and health care : a critical approach / | 306.461 WHY Social lives of medicines / | 306.461 WIL Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality / | 306.461 WIL Medicine and the body / | 306.461 WIL Medicine and the body / | 306.461 WIN Culture and health : applying medical anthropology / |
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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