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Health and Inequalityby S Curtis
Sage Publications Ltd. 2003; US$ 64.00Health and Inequality presents a comprehensive analysis of how geographical perspectives can be used to understand the problems of health inequalities. The text has three principal themes: to discuss the geography of health inequality and to examine strategies for reducing disadvantage; to review and develop the theoretical basis for a geographical analysis of these problems - the discussion will illustrate how theoretical developments can help in the design and evaluation of intervention; and to explain how different methodologies in the geography of health, both quantitative and qualitative, can be applied in research - demonstrating the complementarity between them. By relating theoretical arguments to specific landscapes, Health and Inequality... more...
Infections and Inequalitiesby Paul Farmer
University of California Press 2001; US$ 24.95Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering. Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness"... more...
At Risk in Americaby Lu Ann Aday
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2002; US$ 80.00This updated second edition of At Risk in America provides a detailed analysis of those key population groups most vulnerable to disease and injury in the United States today-including homeless persons, refugees and immigrants, people living with AIDS, alcohol and substance abusers, high-risk mothers and infants, victims of family or other violence, and the chronically or mentally ill. Lu Ann Aday reviews the major theories and knowledge concerning these at-risk groups and offers new approaches and methodologies for tracing the social determinants and societal influences on health. She examines the specific health needs and risks faced by these groups, their experience in the health care system, the current policies and programs that serve... more...
Medicine and Charity Before the Welfare Stateby Jonathan Barry; Colin Jones
Routledge 1994; US$ 41.95This volume offers a broad perspective on the relationship between charity and medicine in Western Europe up to the advent of welfare states in the twentieth century. more...
Foucault, Health and Medicineby Alan Petersen; Robin Bunton
Routledge 1997; US$ 59.95This 'state of the art' overview of Foucaldian scholarship in health and medicine assesses the profound impact of Foucault's work and shows how key researchers in the sociology of health and illness are currently engaging with his work. more...
Researching Cultural Differences in Healthby David Kelleher; Sheila Hillier
Routledge 1996; US$ 59.95Offers a range of accounts of how people in ethnic minority groups perceive and manage their illnesses. Illnesses discussed include: sickle-cell disorder, mental illness, hypertension, and coronary heart disease. more...
Working for Equality in Healthby Paul Bywaters; Eileen McLeod
Routledge 1996; US$ 59.95Health workers and academics join to distil the results of their efforts to understand, oppose and change health inequalities. The contributors detail processes by which inequalities are maintained as well as how to combat them. more...
Health and Social Organizationby David Blane; Eric Brunner; Richard Wilkinson
Routledge 1996; US$ 65.00Leading British and North American researchers show that determinants of health are to be found in social, economic and cultural circumstances. Examines recent public health policy as well as focusing on social organization issues. more...
Health, Medicine and Societyby Simon J. Williams; Jonathan Gabe; Michael Calnan
Routledge 2000; US$ 69.95This text brings together a range of eminent international scholars to reflect upon matters of health, medicine and society at the turn of the century. more...
Medicine in the Making of Modern Britain, 1700-1920by Christopher Lawrence
Routledge 1994; US$ 39.95Christopher Lawrence's critical overview of the way medicine has developed in Britain over the last two centuries is the first short synoptic analysis of the clinical encounter. more...









