The death gap : how inequality kills / David A. Ansell, MD.
The death gap : how inequality kills / David A. Ansell, MD.
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
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G 2017/5773
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English
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Physical content
xviii, 235 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Preface: One street, two worlds -- Part 1: American roulette. American roulette ; Structural violence and the death gap ; Location, location, location ; Perception is reality ; The three Bs : beliefs, behavior, biology -- Part 2: Trapped by inequity. Fire and rain : life and death in natural disaste...
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Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
We hear plenty about the widening income gap between the rich and the poor in America and about the expanding distance dividing the haves and the have-nots. But when detailing the many things that the poor have not, we often overlook the most critical their health. The poor die sooner. Blacks die sooner. And poor urban blacks die sooner than almost...
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The death gap : how inequality kills / David A. Ansell, MD.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-222) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-222) and index.
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G 2017/5773
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74VKVgBdPyMM
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ISBN
022642815X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226428154 (cloth : alk. paper)
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362.10973
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991024148814502626
