Nancy Krieger (Professor of Socia Professor of Social Epidemiology

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on an array of novel examples such as workplace discrimination, relationship abuse, Jim Crow, climate change, and pesticides, Nancy Krieger argues for a more expansive understanding of how humans biologically embody our societal and ecological contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Small Books Big Ideas in Population Health
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 129mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780197510728
• ISBN-10: 0197510728
• Artikelnr.: 62311815

Autorenporträt

Nancy Krieger, PhD, is Professor of Social Epidemiology and American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH) and Director of the HSPH Interdisciplinary Concentration on Women, Gender, and Health. She is an internationally recognized social epidemiologist with a background in biochemistry, philosophy of science, and history of public health. In 2004, she became an ISI highly cited scientist and has over thirty years of activism involving social justice, science, and health.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Acknowledgments
* Chapter 1. From Embodying Injustice to Embodying Equity: Embodied
Truths and the Ecosocial Theory of Disease Distribution
* Chapter 2. Embodying (In)justice and Embodied Truths: Using Ecosocial
Theory to Analyze Population Health Data
* Chapter 3. Challenges: Embodied Truths, Vision, and Advancing Health
Justice
* References
* Index