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Political sociology and the people's health / Jason Beckfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beckfield, Jason, author.
- Series:
- Small book, big ideas in population health.
- Small book, big ideas in population health
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--United States.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- In a stirring synthesis, 'Political Sociology and the People's Health' advances the debate over social inequalities in health by offering a new set of provocative hypotheses around how health is distributed in and across populations. It joins political sociology's macroscopic insights into social policy, labour markets, and the racialized and gendered state with social epidemiology's conceptualizations and measurements of populations, etiologic periods, and distributions. The result is a major leap forward in how we understand the relationships between institutions and inequalities - and essential reading for those in public health, sociology, and beyond.
- Contents:
- Key concepts, measures, & data
- New questions & answers about embodied social inequalities
- Scientific challenges to engaging political sociology & social epidemiology.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-049249-X
- 0-19-049250-3
- 0-19-049248-1
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