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Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care

By Hon Dennis Raphael , Toba Bryant , Marcia Rioux , Gary Teeple

Book information

Publisher
Canadian Scholars Press
Year
2006
ISBN
1551302969, 9781551302966, 9781435604148
Open Library ID
OL11990882M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1591054 bytes)
Pages
419\419
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

Staying Alive provides a fresh perspective on the issues surrounding health, health care, and illness. In addition to the traditional approaches of health sciences and the sociology of health, this book unpacks the impact that human rights issues and political economy have on health. This provocative volume takes up these issues as they occur in Canada and the United States, while placing these analyses in an international context. No book to date has taken such an in-depth look at the construction of health care and illness internationally. With its emphasis on political economy and power distribution, and its global perspective, Staying Alive will become an essential text for those teaching the sociology of health in North America.

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