The impact of inequality : how to make sick societies healthier
著者
書誌事項
The impact of inequality : how to make sick societies healthier
The New Press, c2005
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大学図書館所蔵 全12件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-343) and index
内容説明・目次
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ISBN 9781565849259
内容説明
A social epidemiologist explores how economic inequalities are directly related to quality of life, health, and life expectancy in America, revealing how social imbalances are also resulting in emotional disorders and higher levels of violence. By the author of Unhealthy Societies and Poverty and Progress.
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; pbk ISBN 9781595581211
内容説明
Comparing the United States with other market democracies and one state with another, this book offers irrefutable evidence that unequal societies create poor health, more social conflict, and more violence. Richard Wilkinson, a pioneering social scientist, addresses the growing feeling-so common in the United States-that modern societies, despite their material success, are social failures. The Impact of Inequality explains why inequality has such devastating effects on the quality and length of our lives.
Wilkinson shows that inequality leads to stress, stress creates sickness on the individual and mass level, and overall society suffers widespread unhappiness and high levels of violence, depression, and mistrust across the social spectrum. The evidence he presents is incontrovertible: social and political equality are essential to improve life for everyone. Wilkinson argues that even small reductions in inequality can make an important difference-for, as this book explains, social relations are always built on material foundations.
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