The Sociology of Health Inequalities

Beyond the Black Report: Mel Bartley (International Center for Health and Society), David Blane (Imperial School of Science Technology and Medicine), and George Davey Smith (Bristol University Medical School).

Part I: Understanding the social dynamics of health inequalities:.

1. Mortality, the social environment, crime and violence: Richard G. Wilkinson (University of Sussex), Ichiro Kawachi (Harvard School of Public Health) and Bruce Kennedy (Harvard School of Public Health).

2. The psycho-social perspective on social inequalities in health: Jon Ivar Elstad (Norwegian Social Research).

3. Theorizing inequalities in health: the place of lay knowledge: Jennie Popay (University of Salford), Gareth Williams (University of Salford), Carol Thomas (University of Lancaster).

4. Is there a place for geography in the analysis of health inequality?: Sarah Curtis and Ian Rees Jones (Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London).

Part II: Social and spatial inequalities in health:.

5. Gender and disadvantage in health: men's health for a change: Elaine Cameron (University of Wolverhampton).

6. Changing the map: health in Britain 1951 - 1991: Mary Shaw, Danny Dorling and Nic Brimblecombe (University of Bristol).

7. Genetic, cultural or socio-economic vulnerability? Explaining ethnic inequalities in health: James Nazroo (Policy Studies Institute, London).

8. Mortgage debt, insecure home ownership and health: an exploratory analysis: Sarah Nettleton and Roger Burrows (University of York).

9. A lifecourse perspective on socio-economic inequalities in health: H. Dike van de Mheen, Karien Stronks and Johann P. Mackenback (University of Rotterdam).

Notes on Contributors.

Index.