Against Health

Against Health
Author: Jonathan Metzl
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2010-11-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0814795935


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Looks at the cultural meanings of health, exploring it's ideologies, arguing that obtaining health is difficult because of cultural conventions, and offering ways to develop healthier options for one's body.


Against Health
Language: en
Pages: 228
Authors: Jonathan Metzl
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-23 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Looks at the cultural meanings of health, exploring it's ideologies, arguing that obtaining health is difficult because of cultural conventions, and offering wa
Against Health
Language: en
Pages: 229
Authors: Jonathan M. Metzl
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-15 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Navigates the divergent cultural meanings of health, and its entanglement with morality in current political discourse You see someone smoking a cigarette and s
Health Against Wealth
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: George Anders
Categories: Health maintenance organizations
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Called "a must-read" by the AMA, this book reveals the problems within the HMO system that could cost people their lives. A "chilling portrait of the many ways
Perilous Medicine
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Leonard Rubenstein
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-21 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Pervasive violence against hospitals, patients, doctors, and other health workers has become a horrifically common feature of modern war. These relentless attac
Boomerang
Language: en
Pages: 260
Authors: Theda Skocpol
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

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Skocpol (government and sociology, Harvard U.) explores the changing currents of domestic U.S. politics through the prism of the defeat of President Clinton's c