Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality [Kindle Edition] Author: Richard G. Wilkinson | Language: English | ISBN:
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Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality
Download books file now Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality from 4shared, mediafire, hotfile, and mirror link Among developed countries it is not the richest societies that have the best health, but those that have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Why? This book shows that social cohesion is crucial to the quality of life. Books with free ebook downloads available Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality
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- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0415092353
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- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (September 11, 2002)
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B000FBFDVU
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Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality, by Richard Wilkinson, is a clear, multifaceted description of research into the patterns of disease, violence, and death between and within societies.
Wilkinson reviews the global patterns of disease and death historically, where the trend is down. Countries which have attained a modest degree of affluence have gone through the `epidemiological transition' where the primary causes of death are no longer infectious, but the `diseases of affluence' the degenerative diseases He then reviews changes between societies, showing that some have large divergence in death rates as a function of income and that others do not. The difference is a function of the spread of income within the society. This pattern applies to the states of the US as well as among nations. . Above a certain level, the prime factors which determine health are relative, not absolute income.
He then cites data on the differences in death rates within societies as a function of income. For example, British civil servants in the lowest income categories have 4 times the rate of death from heart disease as those in the highest income categories. This pattern is shown to apply to homicides, and reading failure as well as a large number of medical conditions.
Another chapter deals with the level of cooperation in human societies in prehistory, versus the atomization and Hobbesian conflict, which is seen as normal and inevitable today. He also reviews studies which show that much of what we call human nature has been shown to be inference from our own behavior and is very sensitive to changes in situation.
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