Locating Health (eBook, ePUB)

Sociological and Historical Explorations
Redaktion: Platt, Stephen; Williams, Gareth; Scott, Sue; Thomas, Hilary

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally presented as papers in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, Locating Health offers reconceptualization of key theoretical terms, including work, income, and public/private domains as well as addressing the reciprocal influence of health and social location.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351166386
• Artikelnr.: 56843726

Autorenporträt

Stephen Platt, Hilary Thomas, Sue Scott, Gareth Williams

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures List of Tables About the editors Notes on the contributors
Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Introduction 2. The Impact of Income
Inequality on Life Expectancy 3. The Gendered Resource Triangle: Health and
Resources in Later Life 4. Gendered Differences in Longevity and Health in
Eastern and Western Europe 5. Feminism and the Health Consequences of
Women's Work in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain 6.
Conditions of Formal and Domestic Labour: Toward an Integrated Framework
for the Analysis of Gender and Social Class Inequalities in Health 7.
Health Issues in Male Early Retirement 8. Occupational Health in the UK Gas
Industry: A Study of Employer, Medical and Worker Knowledge and Action on
Occupational Health in the Late Nineteenth an Early Twentieth Century 9.
How Do Places Shape Health? Rethinking Locality and Lifestyle in North-East
England 10. The Health Costs of Britain's Industrialization: A Perspective
from the Celtic Periphery 11. 'Keeping up with the Joneses?' Private Health
Insurance as a Consumption Good? 12. Health and Ignorance: Past and Present
Index