Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • The social economy of health
  • part Part I The health of societies
  • chapter 2 Health becomes a social science
  • chapter 3 Rising life expectancy and the epidemiological transition
  • part Part II Health inequalities within societies
  • chapter 4 The problem of health inequalities
  • chapter 5 Income distribution and health
  • part Part III Social cohesion and social conflict
  • chapter 6 A small town in the USA, wartime Britain, Eastern Europe and Japan
  • chapter 7 An anthropology of social cohesion
  • chapter 8 The symptoms of disintegration
  • part Part IV How society kills
  • chapter 9 The psychosocial causes of illness
  • chapter 10 Baboons, civil servants and children's height
  • part Part V Redistribution, economic growth and the quality of life
  • chapter 11 Social capital: putting Humpty together again.