Title Unhealthy societies : the afflictions of inequality / Richard Wilkinson.

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London ; New York : Routledge, 1996.

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-246) and indexes.
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Contents	Chapter 1 Introduction -- The social economy of health -- part Part I The health of societies -- chapter 2 Health becomes a social science -- chapter 3 Rising life expectancy and the epidemiological transition -- part Part II Health inequalities within societies -- chapter 4 The problem of health inequalities -- chapter 5 Income distribution and health -- part Part III Social cohesion and social conflict -- chapter 6 A small town in the USA, wartime Britain, Eastern Europe and Japan -- chapter 7 An anthropology of social cohesion -- chapter 8 The symptoms of disintegration -- part Part IV How society kills -- chapter 9 The psychosocial causes of illness -- chapter 10 Baboons, civil servants and children's height -- part Part V Redistribution, economic growth and the quality of life -- chapter 11 Social capital: putting Humpty together again.
Local Note	EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text
Subject	Social medicine.
	Income distribution -- Health aspects.
	Equality -- Health aspects.
	Social Medicine.
	Health Services Accessibility.
	Prejudice.
	Socioeconomic Factors.
	Mortality.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Equality -- Health aspects. (OCoLC)fst00914463
	Income distribution -- Health aspects. (OCoLC)fst00968677
	Social medicine. (OCoLC)fst01122637
Other Form:	Print version: Wilkinson, Richard G. Unhealthy societies. London ; New York : Routledge, 1996 (DLC) 96021560
ISBN	9780203421680 (electronic book)
	020342168X (electronic book)
	0415092353 (paperback)
	0415092345 (cloth)
	9780415092340
	0415092345
	9780415092357
	0415092353
	020342168X

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