Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Krieger, Nancy.

Description

1. v, 545 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Policy, politics, health, and medicine series

Uniform title

1. Policy, politics, health, and medicine series (Unnumbered)
2. Policy, politics, health, and medicine series.

Subject

1. Health Policy
2. Civil Rights
3. Social Medicine
4. Diseases > Social aspects
5. Sociology, Medical > methods
6. Equality > Health aspects
7. Social medicine
8. Epidemiology > Social aspects
9. Health > Social aspects

Contents

1. Introduction : embodiment, inequality, and epidemiology : what are the connections? / Nancy Krieger -- Pt. 1. Historical roots of contemporary social epidemiology -- 1. The social origins of illness : a neglected history / Howard Waitzkin -- 2. Measuring social inequalities in health in the United States : a historical review, 1900-1950 / Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth Fee -- 3. You are dangerous to your health : the ideology and politics of victim blaming / Robert Crawford -- Pt. 2. Contemporary social epidemiologic framework and constructs -- 4. Embodying inequality : a review of concepts, measures, and methods for studying health consequences of discrimination / Nancy Krieger -- 5. Race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status : measurement and methodological issues / David R. Williams -- 6. Racial ideology and explanations for health inequalities among middle-class whites / Carles Muntaner, Craig Nagoshi and Chamberlain Diala -- 7. Income dynamics and health / Greg J. Duncan -- 8. Is unemployment pathogenic? : a review of current concepts with lessons for policy planners / Samuel E. D. Shortt -- 9. Man-made medicine and women's health : the biopolitics of sex/gender and race/ethnicity / Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth Fee -- 10. Interpreting the evidence : competing paradigms and the emergence of lesbian and gay suicide as a "social fact" / Kathleen Erwin -- 11. Disability theory and public policy : implications for critical gerontology / Jae Kennedy and Meredith Minkler -- Pt. 1. Dying for a living : income, work, and health -- 12. Income, social stratification, class, and private health insurance : a study of the Baltimore metropolitan area / Carles Muntaner and P. Ellen Parsons -- 13. Poverty and death in the United States / Robert A. Hahn, Elaine D. Eaker, Nancy D. Barker, Steven M. Teutsch, Waldemar A. Sosniak and Nancy Krieger -- 14. Understanding income inequalities in health among men and women in Britain and Finland / Ossi Rahkonen, Sara Arber, Eero Lahelma, Pekka Martikainen and Karri Silventoinen -- 15. Integrating nonemployment into research on health inequalities / Sara Arber -- Pt. 2. Physical hazards : work, violence, and safety -- 16. Factors associated with work-related accidents and sickness among Maquiladora workers : the case of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico / Hector Balcazar, Catalina Denman and Francisco Lara -- 17. Sugar and spice and everything nice : health effects of the sexual division of labor among train cleaners / Karen Messing, Ghislaine Doniol-Shaw and Chantal Haentjens -- 18. State-level clustering of safety measures and its relationship to injury mortality / Phil Brown, Nicole Bell, Peter Conrad, Jonathan Howland and Martha Lang -- Pt. 3. Embodied connections : cumulative interplay of inequalities and physical and mental health -- 19. The social origin of cardiovascular risk : an investigation in a rural community / Marthe R. Gold and Peter Franks -- 20. Latina and African American women : continuing disparities in health / Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Rose Marie Martinez, Andrea Kidd Taylor and Betty Garman Robinson -- 21. Risks associated with long-term homelessness among women : battery, rape, and HIV infection / Barbara Fisher, Mel Hovell, C. Richard Hofstetter and Richard Hough -- 22. Prevalence and health implications of anti-gay discrimination : a study of black and white women and men in the CARDIA cohort / Nancy Krieger and Stephen Sidney -- Conclusion : epidemiology, social justice, human rights, and population health - a beginning / Nancy Krieger.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.