Healthy Societies

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"An impressively wide-ranging account of what a healthy society demands, and why the UK, at least, is rapidly descending into a less healthy, more unequal society." Kat Smith, University of Strathclyde "Brilliantly applying sociological insight to address the pressing issue of lost welfare for an increasing number of people, Scambler proposes a more action-oriented approach. This is a book of great wisdom." Aksel Tjora, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) "Healthy Societies can be considered Graham Scambler's masterwork. It is a brilliant and theoretically informed analysis of the expanding class divide in health and life expectancy in the UK and US." William Cockerham, University of Alabama at Birmingham and University of Maryland





"Neoliberals assume that healthy societies are merely collections of healthy individuals. Scambler destroys this assumption with a scholarly analysis of how fractured and unequal societies form the structural preconditions for individuals to become unhealthy. To produce healthy individuals, we need societal reform." Trisha Greenhalgh, University of Oxford