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Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Edited by Richard Hofrichter
ISBN 0-7879-6733-5, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California (Telephone: 877-762-2974, Website: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/), 2003, 688 pp., $55 (Paperback)
Health and Social Justice is a useful compendium of new and previously published chapters and papers describing different components of the social determinants of health. The contributors represent many disciplines, each providing an important perspective on the complex interplay of social, economic, cultural, political, demographic, and ethnic factors in influencing health status. Seven of the 27 chapters are new contributions for this volume. Most of the previously published chapters first appeared in the last several years