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Social medicine and the coming transformation / by Howard Waitzkin, Alina Pérez, and Matthew Anderson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waitzkin, Howard, author.
- Winans, Alina Pérez, author.
- Anderson, Matthew (Matthew R.), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine--Textbooks.
- Social medicine.
- Social Medicine.
- Medical Subjects:
- Social Medicine.
- Genre:
- Textbooks
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Students, teachers, practitioners and policy advocates will value this textbook of social medicine, which goes beyond the usual approaches of texts in public health, medical sociology and health policy, showing how principles based on solidarity and mutual aid have enabled people to construct health-promoting social conditions"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Waitzkin, Howard. Social medicine and the coming transformation
- ISBN:
- 9781138685970
- 1138685976
- 9781138685987
- 1138685984
- OCLC:
- 1145904462
- Publisher Number:
- 90104555330
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