Embodying Inequality

Krieger, Nancy

SECTION I: Social Epidemiology: History, Hypotheses, Methods, and Measurement Preface to Section I Nancy Krieger Part 1: Historical Roots of Contemporary Social Epidemiology The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected History Howard Waitzkin Measuring Social Inequalities in Health in the United States: A Historical Review, 1900-1950 Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth Fee You Are Dangerous to Your Health: The Ideology and Politics of Victim Blaming Robert Crawford PART 2: Contemporary Social Epidemiologic Framework and Constructs Embodying Inequality: A Review of Concepts, Measures, and Methods for Studying Health Consequences of Discrimination Nancy Krieger Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status: Measurement and Methodological Issues David R. Williams Racial Ideology and Explanations for Health Inequalities among Middle-Class Whites Carles Muntaner, Craig Nagoshi, and Chamberlain Diala Income Dynamics and Health Greg J. Duncan Is Unemployment Pathogenic? A Review of Current Concepts with Lessons for Policy Planners Samuel E. D. Shortt Man- Made Medicine and Women's Health: The Biopolitics of Sex/Gender and Race/Ethnicity Nancy Krieger and Elizabeth Fee Interpreting the Evidence: Competing Paradigms and the Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Suicide as a "Social Fact" Kathleen Erwin Disability Theory and Public Policy: Implications for Critical Gerontology Jae Kennedy and Meredith Minkler SECTION II: Empirical Investigation: Social Epidemiology at Work Preface to Section II Nancy Krieger PART 1: Dying for a Living: Income, Work, and Health Income, Social Stratification, Class, and Private Health Insurance: A Study of the Baltimore Metropolitan Area Carles Muntaner and P. Ellen Parsons Poverty and Death in the United States Robert A. Hahn, Elaine D. Eaker, Nancy D. Barker, Steven M. Teutsch, Waldemar A. Sosniak, and Nancy Krieger Understanding Income Inequalities in Health among Men and Women in Britain and Finland Ossi Rahkonen, Sara Arber, Eero Lahelma, Pekka Martikainen, and Karri Silventoinen Integrating Nonemployment into Research on Health Inequalities Sara Arber PART 2: Physical Hazards: Work, Violence, and Safety Factors Associated with Work-Related Accidents and Sickness among Maquiladora Workers: The Case of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico Hector Balcazar, Catalina Denman, and Francisco Lara Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice: Health Effects of the Sexual Division of Labor among Train Cleaners Karen Messing, Ghislaine Doniol-Shaw, and Chantal Hantjens State-Level Clustering of Safety Measures and Its Relationship to Injury Mortality Phil Brown, Nicole Bell, Peter Conrad, Jonathan Howland, and Martha Lang PART 3: Embodied Connections: Cumulative Interplay of Inequalities and Physical and Mental Health The Social Origin of Cardiovascular Risk: An Investigation in a Rural Community Marthe R. Gold and Peter Franks Latina and African American Women: Continuing Disparities in Health Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Rose Marie Martinez, Andrea Kidd Taylor, and Betty Garman Robinson Risks Associated with Long-Term Homelessness among Women: Battery, Rape, and HIV Infection Barbara Fisher, Mel Hovell, C. Richard Hofstetter, and Richard Hough Prevalence and Health Implications of Anti-Gay Discrimination: A Study of Black and White Women and Men in the CARDIA Cohort Nancy Krieger and Stephen Sidney Conclusion: Epidemiology, Social Justice, Human Rights, and Population Health-A Beginning Nancy Krieger Index