Book Review: Social Justice and Health

Posted by on August 19, 2005

[posted from Community Based Participatory Research listserv]

Health Promotion Practice October 2004 Vol. 5, No. 4, 372-376 Ideologies and Pathologies of Power: Two Books That Contribute to the Cause of Innovative Public Health Theory, Practice, and Promotion Hofrichter, R.(Ed.). (2003). Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. 688 pages. ISBN 0-7879-6733-5. Paperback. $55.00.

Farmer, P. (2003). Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. Berkeley: University of California Press. 419 pages. ISBN 0-520-23550-9. Hardcover. $27.50.

If there is any doubt that the sciences of health promotion and disease prevention are in a state of crisis, the publications of Health and Social Justice and Pathologies of Power should dispel this uncertainty. The array of articles included in Health and Social Justice and the relentless examples of Paul Farmer?s work in Pathologies of Power demonstrate that physicians, public health practitioners, researchers, and policy makers have not found and implemented appropriate responses to public health?s most difficult challenges of improving the health of the poor and eliminating ethnic, gender, and class disparities in health…

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