Embodying inequality : epidemiologic perspectives /
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| Imprint: | Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., c2005. |
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| Description: | v, 545 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Policy, politics, health, and medicine series Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered) |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5876454 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Embodiment, Inequality, and Epidemiology: What are the Connections?
- Section I. Social Epidemiology: History, Hypotheses, Methods, and Measurement
- Preface to Section I
- Part 1. Historical Roots of Contemporary Social Epidemiology
- 1. The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected History
- 2. Measuring Social Inequalities in Health in the United States: A Historical Review, 1900-1950
- 3. You Are Dangerous to Your Health: The Ideology and Politics of Victim Blaming
- Part 2. Contemporary Social Epidemiologic Framework and Constructs
- 4. Embodying Inequality: A Review of Concepts, Measures, and Methods for Studying Health Consequences of Discrimination
- 5. Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status: Measurement and Methodological Issues
- 6. Racial Ideology and Explanations for Health Inequalities among Middle-Class Whites
- 7. Income Dynamics and Health
- 8. Is Unemployment Pathogenic? A Review of Current Concepts with Lessons for Policy Planners
- 9. Man-Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity
- 10. Interpreting the Evidence: Competing Paradigms and the Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Suicide as a "Social Fact"
- 11. Disability Theory and Public Policy: Implications for Critical Gerontology
- Section II. Empirical Investigation: Social Epidemiology at Work
- Preface to Section II
- Part 1. Dying for a Living: Income, Work, and Health
- 12. Income, Social Stratification, Class, and Private Health Insurance: A Study of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area
- 13. Poverty and Death in the United States
- 14. Understanding Income Inequalities in Health among Men and Women in Britain and Finland
- 15. Integrating Nonemployment into Research on Health Inequalities
- Part 2. Physical Hazards: Work, Violence, and Safety
- 16. Factors Associated with Work-Related Accidents and Sickness among Maquiladora Workers: The Case of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico
- 17. Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Health Effects of the Sexual Division of Labor among Train Cleaners
- 18. State-Level Clustering of Safety Measures and Its Relationship to Injury Mortality
- Part 3. Embodied Connections: Cumulative Interplay of Inequalities and Physical and Mental Health
- 19. The Social Origin of Cardiovascular Risk: An Investigation in a Rural Community
- 20. Latina and African American Women: Continuing Disparities in Health
- 21. Risks Associated with Long-Term Homelessness among Women: Battery, Rape, and HIV Infection
- 22. Prevalence and Health Implications of Anti-Gay Discrimination: A Study of Black and White Women and Men in the CARDIA Cohort
- Conclusion: Epidemiology, Social Justice, Human Rights, and Population Health-A Beginning
- Index
- About the Editor
