The Health of Nations: Why Inequality Is Harmful to Your Health, Revised and Updated Edition | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ichiro Kawachi, Bruce P. Kennedy
Publisher: New Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 240
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ISBN: 1565848969
Dewey Decimal Number: 353
EAN: 9781565848962
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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A celebrated analysis of inequality's impact on human health.
Praised by The Lancet, which called it a "lucid account that ….deserves to be read by everybody interested in the politics of health," and the New England Journal of Medicine, The Health of Nations provides powerful evidence that growing inequality is undermining health, welfare, and community life in America. The book's prizewinning authors also make an urgent argument for social justice as a necessary vehicle for the betterment of society.
The Health of Nations is the synthesis of years of groundbreaking research on the connections between social structures and health and welfare, and one which Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen says "has much to offer in reshaping the agenda of the debate on health care." Now in a revised edition which includes a new afterword, it dramatically demonstrates that growing inequalities, far from being a benign by-product of capitalism, threaten the very freedoms that economic development is thought to bring about.
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If you vote, you should read this book. December 4, 2006
Ann Morris (Iowa City, IA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
For the most part, I'm one of those people who enjoy 95% of what they read and yet are largely quiet about it. I read, and then I move on. This book is one of the few exceptions to this rule. I read the hardbook version of this book during my college "Sociology of Medicine" class three years ago, and it completely changed the way I thought about the delivery of healthcare in the United States and the world. Written by two researchers in public health, Health of Nations is well-written, well-researched and fully cited. Using clear facts and analogies, it drives home the point that healthcare in the United States is a far cry from perfect. Just the fact that I read this book makes me cringe every time that I hear a politician claim that medicine in the United States is the best in the world. Every American who votes on the current state of healthcare should read this book. Soapbox aside, I'm now a third year medical student, and I still refer to this book in conversation. I have also cited it as a reference in at least three academic papers, both in college and in medical school. I'm not sure I could give such high praise to any other book I have read for school. All in all, this a well-crafted nonfiction book that will leave a lasting impression.
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