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Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality / Richard Wilkinson
Bib ID 397884
Format BookBook
Author
Wilkinson, Richard G
 
Description London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 
xi, 255 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. 
ISBN 0415092353 (pbk.)  0415092345 (cloth)  0415092353 (paper)  0415092345 
Full contents
  • 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
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-246) and indexes.

Subjects Social medicine.  |  Income distribution - Health aspects.  |  Equality - Health aspects.

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