Sociology: Inequities in Healthcare

Content: The organisation of misery -- Whose responsibility? -- Fair society, healthy lives -- Equity from the start -- Education and empowerment -- Working to live -- Do not go gentle -- Building resilient communities -- Fair societies -- Living fairly in the world -- The organisation of hope

"Race, Ethnicity and Health, Second Edition, is a new and critical selection of hallmark articles that address health disparities in America. It effectively documents the need for equal treatment and equal health status for minorities."

Content: People like us -- Baby mamas -- Charity care -- Inner-city blues -- Confronting hate -- When doctors discriminate -- The color of HIV/AIDS -- Matching -- Doing the right thing -- Beyond race.

Contents: What is social inequality? -- What is health inequality? -- Figuring out health inequality -- Explanatory models I : behavioural and 'cultural' explanations -- Explanatory models II : psycho-social factors -- Explanatory models III : materialist explanations -- Macro-social models -- Gender and inequality in health -- Ethnic inequalities in health -- Health inequality in the life course -- The way forward for research and policy debate.

Content: Beauty -- Suffering -- Emergencies -- The world beneath our noses -- The birth of American dentistry -- Separate lives -- Adventurers and auxiliaries -- The system -- Color lines