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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Must read...especially for medical students
This book is a fabulous and easy to understand book on the social determinants of health. In fact, I am recommending this book to faculty and students at our medical school and posting a link on our Facebook "Public Health and Medicine Student Interest Group". It makes understanding of various concepts such as how stress creates illness easy to grasp.
Published on June 24, 2009 by A. Clithero
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting concepts presented, crippled by its underlying political message
Although this book presents some interesting ideas, it has just as many bad ones as it does good ones. This book goes so far as to state that you can't blame people in the lower classes for their smoking induced lung cancer simply because "everybody else is doing it, and they are exerting a type of 'peer pressure' upon them to smoke." I find the idea that people need not...
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Must read...especially for medical students,
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This review is from: Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health (Hardcover)
This book is a fabulous and easy to understand book on the social determinants of health. In fact, I am recommending this book to faculty and students at our medical school and posting a link on our Facebook "Public Health and Medicine Student Interest Group". It makes understanding of various concepts such as how stress creates illness easy to grasp.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting concepts presented, crippled by its underlying political message,
This review is from: Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health (Paperback)
Although this book presents some interesting ideas, it has just as many bad ones as it does good ones. This book goes so far as to state that you can't blame people in the lower classes for their smoking induced lung cancer simply because "everybody else is doing it, and they are exerting a type of 'peer pressure' upon them to smoke." I find the idea that people need not be held responsible for the consequences of their decisions absolutely ridiculous, and this book has quite a few of those "I can't believe people publish this garbage" moments; however, once you trudge through the statistics slanted to favor socialism and nonsensical ideas about "not judging people because their fat and they eat too much/smoke too much/ never exercise and it's not their fault," it's not so bad. At least, it's not as bad as I thought it would be.
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health (Paperback)
Great product, took a bit to get to me, but it was in great condition thanks!
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Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Health by Donald A. Barr (Paperback - May 15, 2008)
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