The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier

ISBN-13: 9780415372695 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 364 str.

Richard G. Wilkinson

Opis

Explores the effects that social and economic differences have on our health as individuals and as whole societies. The author argues that this takes us to the roots of social malaise and also makes suggestions about the changes required to increase life expectancy and the quality of life for us all.

Spis treści

1. Affluent Societies: Material Success, Social Failure  2. Inequality: More Hostile, Less Sociable Societies  3. Anxieties and Insecurities: The Eyes of Others  4. Health and Inequality: Shorter Stressful Lives  5. Violence and Inequality: Status, Stigma and Respect  6. Cooperation or Conflict: Inequality Names the Game  7. Gender, Race and Inequality: Kicking Down  8. Evolved Social Strategies: Mutuality and Dominance  9. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Economic Democracy

O autorze

Richard Wilkinson is Professor of Social Epidemiology, Division of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Nottingham Medical School, and Visiting Professor at the International Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology, University College London. He has been researching the social determinants of health and health inequalities for over 25 years and is the author of the bestselling Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality (Routledge, 1996).