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Locating health : sociological and historical explorations /

"Originally presented as papers in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, Locating Health represents a valuable addition to the health inequalities debate by extending our gaze beyond the traditional locations to include place, consumption and lifestyle. It...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Platt, Stephen, 1948- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.
Colección:Routledge library edition. British sociological association ; v. 16.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 The impact of income inequality on life expectancy; 3 The gendered resource triangle: Health and resources in later life; 4 Gender differences in longevity and health in Eastern and Western Europe; 5 Feminism and the health consequences of women's work in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain; 6 Conditions of formal and domestic labour: Toward an integrated framework for the analysis of gender and social class inequalities in health
  • 7 Health issues in male early retirement8 Occupational health in the UK gas industry: A study of employer, medical and worker knowledge and action on occupational health in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; 9 How do places shape health? Rethinking locality and lifestyle in North-East England; 10 The health costs of Britain's industrialization: A perspective from the Celtic periphery; 11 'Keeping up with the Joneses?' Private health insurance as a consumption good?; 12 Health and ignorance: Past and present; Index