Howard Waitzkin, Alina Pérez, Matt Anderson

Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134869008
• Artikelnr.: 60733823

Autorenporträt

Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of New Mexico and practices internal medicine part time in New Mexico and Illinois. For many years he has been active in struggles focusing on social medicine in the United States and Latin America. He is author and coordinator with the Working Group for Health beyond Capitalism of Health Care under the Knife: Moving beyond Capitalism for Our Health (2018), and author of Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire (2011), among other books.

Alina Pérez is a community-based physician at St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford, Massachusetts. A graduate of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Rockford, she completed her residency at the Beth Israel Deaconess Harvard-Affiliated Medical Center in Boston. She has conducted research on health policy and is pursuing interests in global health and social medicine.

Matthew Anderson is Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Social Medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. As a family physician working in the Bronx, New York, he is a core faculty member of the Montefiore Residency Program in Social Medicine. He is founder and co-editor of the bilingual online journal Social Medicine/Medicina Social.