Class and Health

Richard Wilkinson

‘This book offers a clear and accessible guide to the content and nature of medical geography, but more uniquely provides a much needed critique of some of the assumptions and methods which underlie the research in this field.’ Sarah Harvey, Journal of Social Policy. ‘In its emphasis on the social and environmental perspective to health this provides a valuable counter-point to technological medicine, the biological approach to health and the anthropocentric viewpoint of the clinical and laboratory approaches of most medical scientists. ‘ G. Melvyn Howe, The Geographical Journal.

• 1. Socio-economic differences in mortality: interpreting the data on their size and trends R. G Wilkinson 2. Social Inequalities in Mortality: The Social Environment M. G. Marmot 3. Social Class Mortality Differentials: Artefact, Selection or Life Circumstances? A. J. Fox, P. O. Goldblatt and D. R. Jones 4. Serious Illness in Childhood and Its Association with Later-Life Achievement M. E J. Wadsworth 5. Unemployment and Mortality in the OPCS Longitudinal Study K. A. Moser, A. J. Fox, and D. R. Jones 6. Income and Mortality R. G. Wilkinson 7. Inequalities in Health and Health Care: A Research Agenda J. Le Grand 8. Longitudinal Studies in Britain Relevant to Inequalities in Health M. Blaxter.