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Pages: 217
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: 226
Authors: Jonathan M. Metzl
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-15 - Publisher: NYU Press

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You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke.” You encou
Against Health
Language: en
Pages: 226
Authors: Jonathan M. Metzl
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-23 - Publisher: NYU Press

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You see someone smoking a cigarette and say,“Smoking is bad for your health,” when what you mean is, “You are a bad person because you smoke.” You encou
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
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