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Oppression : a social determinant of health / edited by Elizabeth A. McGibbon.

McGibbon, Elizabeth A. (author.). McGibbon, Elizabeth Anne, 1955- (Added Author).

Summary:

Oppression and health are intricately connected. A recent emphasis on the social determinants of health has focused attention on the “causes of the causes” of ill health, including systemic forces such as capitalism, globalization, imperialism, medicalization, neo-colonialism and neoliberalism. If we are to change the oppressive practices that cause ill health our analysis must consistently and explicitly integrate these systemic forces and thus reframe growing health inequities within the scope of moral responsibility and social justice. The internationally recognized authors of this book do just this. An important addition to the relatively new field of critical health studies, Oppression is an integration of critical social scientific perspectives and health systems/health sciences knowledge. The goal of the book is to support, enhance and provoke action to interrogate the progress of oppression. It can be done, and it is being done.

Record details

ISBN: 9781552664452 (softcover)
Physical Description: 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Halifax, NS : Fernwood Pub., [2012]
Copyright: ©2012

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Part 1. Politicizing health - 1. Introduction to oppression and the social determinants of health - 2. People under threat: health outcomes and oppression - 3. Critical perspectives on the social determinants of health -- Part 2. How oppression operates to produce health inequities - 4. Fragmented performances: ageism and the health of older women - 5. Race and racism as determinants of health - 6. Oppression and the health of Indigenous people - 7. Social exclusion as a determinant of health - 8. Oppression and Im/migrant health in Canada - 9. Oppression and mental health: pathologizing the outcomes of injustice - 10. Oppression, health and the public policy in Canada - 11. A rights-based approach to primary health care: increasing accountability for health inequities within health systems strengthening - 12. Oppression and the political economy of health inequities - 13. Health as a human right: challenges and supports for accountability -- Select bibliogrpahy.