Social medicine and the coming transformation / by Howard Waitzkin, Alina Pérez, and Matthew Anderson.
- Waitzkin, Howard
- Date:
- 2021
- Books
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Description
"Social medicine shows that social conditions affect health and illness more than biology does (as in COVID-19), and social change affects the outcomes of health and illness more than health services do. In this critical introduction to social medicine, the authors draw on examples worldwide to show how principles based on solidarity and mutual aid help people construct health-promoting social conditions."--Provided by publisher.
Publication/Creation
New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
Physical description
xxii, 284 pages : black and white illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Contents
What is social medicine? -- One and a half centuries of forgetting and remembering the social origins of illness -- The social determination of illness, part 1 : health and social contradictions -- The social determination of illness, part 2 : inequality, class, race/ethnicity, gender -- Social medicine in the United States -- Health and empire, part 1 : empire's historical health component -- Health and empire, part 2 : resisting empire, building an alternative future in medicine and public health -- Social medicine in Latin America -- Social medicine and the micro-politics of medical encounters -- Health praxis, reform, and sociomedical activism.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWA31 2021W14sOpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9781138685970
- 1138685976
- 9781138685987
- 1138685984