9780197510384-0197510388-Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health

Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health

ISBN-13: 9780197510384
ISBN-10: 0197510388
Edition: 1
Author: Sandro Galea, Michael Stein
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780197510384
ISBN-10: 0197510388
Edition: 1
Author: Sandro Galea, Michael Stein
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 272 pages

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Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health (ISBN-13: 9780197510384 and ISBN-10: 0197510388), written by authors Sandro Galea, Michael Stein, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Health Care Delivery (Administration & Medicine Economics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Pained: Uncomfortable Conversations about the Public's Health (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Health Care Delivery books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.72.

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A POLITICAL PROVOCATION FROM A PAIR OF PHYSICIANS WRITING OUTSIDE THEIR LANE

Americans care about their health. Americans pay lots of money in hopes of maintaining their health. So why are Americans so unhealthy?

The reason is simple: as a country, the United States overinvests in medical care at the expense of the social, economic, and cultural forces that produce health. The rise of medicine as a cornerstone of American life and culture has coincided with a social and political devaluation of factors
demonstrated to mean more to our vitality than anything else -- influences like where we live, work, and play; livable wages that create opportunity for healthy living; and gender and racial equity.

In Pained, physicians Michael Stein and Sandro Galea push the conversation around American health where it belongs: toward matters of class, money, and culture. Across more than 50 essays and data illustrations, Pained casts a light on how the structural components of everyday life -- like school,
housing, police, even cell phones -- ultimately determine who gets to be healthy in today's America. In doing so, it makes a case for reframing our political discourse in less myopic, more effectual terms.

Accessible and surprising, political but not partisan, Pained is the urgent, uncomfortable conversation that American needs in this challenging moment. It will delight and infuriate readers of all political stripes.

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