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Healthy Societies: Policy, Practice and Obstacles
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About the author
Introduction
ONE The healthy society
Disease patterns over time
The healthy society and the sociological task
TWO Social conditions and health inequalities
The missing fraction of the 1 per cent
Structure, culture and agency
THREE Markets, profits and health care
The NHS and private providers
Documenting the decline of the NHS
Characterising and explaining a declining health care system
FOUR The structure/culture axis
Cultural relativity and further macro-social dynamics
Taking stock
FIVE COVID-19 and the fractured society
Delay
Strategy
Efficiency and effectiveness
Not 'chumocracy' or 'cronyism', but corruption
COVID and the fractured society
SIX The challenge of global inequality in the Anthropocene
A global perspective
SEVEN Planet Earth
Anthropocene, Capitalocene or Proletariocene?
EIGHT War
Thermonuclear war, the arms industry and corporate armies
War and health
NINE Why theory matters
What is left of Marx for the fractured society?
The framework of Jurgen Habermas
Roy Bhaskar's underlabouring philosophy of critical realism
Tying together a few theoretical threads
TEN A theoretical framework for achieving the healthy society
Abrams' affinity-convergence model of spontaneous mass mobilisation
Social preconditions for transformative change
Accomplishing transformative structural change in the UK
Class action: a necessary condition for structural change
Activity-convergence and a predisposition to anger and hatred
A crisis of state legitimation
Trigger events
Civil disobedience/violence
Utopian narratives
ELEVEN Policy, practice and obstacles
A note on the free flourishing of all
Overcoming obstacles to 'health and health care for all'
The UK as a 'healthy society'
Healthy societies in the 'periphery'
Climate change and the healthy society
Warfare and the healthy society
TWELVE The future: whither sociology?
Muckraking sociology in the health field
Final thoughts
References
Index
Half-title
Series page
Healthy Societies: Policy, Practice and Obstacles
Copyright information
Table of Contents
List of boxes
About the author
Introduction
ONE The healthy society
Disease patterns over time
The healthy society and the sociological task
TWO Social conditions and health inequalities
The missing fraction of the 1 per cent
Structure, culture and agency
THREE Markets, profits and health care
The NHS and private providers
Documenting the decline of the NHS
Characterising and explaining a declining health care system
FOUR The structure/culture axis
Cultural relativity and further macro-social dynamics
Taking stock
FIVE COVID-19 and the fractured society
Delay
Strategy
Efficiency and effectiveness
Not 'chumocracy' or 'cronyism', but corruption
COVID and the fractured society
SIX The challenge of global inequality in the Anthropocene
A global perspective
SEVEN Planet Earth
Anthropocene, Capitalocene or Proletariocene?
EIGHT War
Thermonuclear war, the arms industry and corporate armies
War and health
NINE Why theory matters
What is left of Marx for the fractured society?
The framework of Jurgen Habermas
Roy Bhaskar's underlabouring philosophy of critical realism
Tying together a few theoretical threads
TEN A theoretical framework for achieving the healthy society
Abrams' affinity-convergence model of spontaneous mass mobilisation
Social preconditions for transformative change
Accomplishing transformative structural change in the UK
Class action: a necessary condition for structural change
Activity-convergence and a predisposition to anger and hatred
A crisis of state legitimation
Trigger events
Civil disobedience/violence
Utopian narratives
ELEVEN Policy, practice and obstacles
A note on the free flourishing of all
Overcoming obstacles to 'health and health care for all'
The UK as a 'healthy society'
Healthy societies in the 'periphery'
Climate change and the healthy society
Warfare and the healthy society
TWELVE The future: whither sociology?
Muckraking sociology in the health field
Final thoughts
References
Index