Social Science Disease & Health Issues
Staying Alive
Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care
- Publisher
- Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2006
- Category
- Disease & Health Issues
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551302966
- Publish Date
- Apr 2006
- List Price
- $49.95
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Where to buy it
Out of print
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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 shows 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 within a wider international context. No other book takes such an in-depth look at the construction of health care and illness internationally.
This unique contributed volume also contains chapters on issues of pharmaceutical policy, social exclusion, gender and care, the social construction of illness and disability, and approaches to promoting population health that include insights into the impact of economic forces such as globalization and privatization on health care and other health issues.
With its emphasis on political economy and power distribution in a global perspective, Staying Alive will become essential reading for those with an interest in the relationship between human rights and health.
About the authors
Dennis Raphael, PhD, is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at York University. The most recent of his over 250 scientific publications have focused on the health effects of income inequality and poverty, the quality of life of communities and individuals, and the impact of government decisions on Canadians’ health and well-being. Dr. Raphael is editor of Tackling Health Inequalities: Lessons from International Experiences and Health Promotion and Quality of Life in Canada; co-editor of Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care; and author of Poverty in Canada: Implications for Health and Quality of Life.
Toba Bryant is a co-editor of Staying Alive: Critical Perspectives on Health, Illness, and Health Care as well as a contributor to Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectivs. She is Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University and an Associate of the Centre for Urban and Community Studies at the University of Toronto.
Marcia Rioux is Professor of Health Policy and Management at York University.