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Weathering : the extraordinary stress of ordinary life in an unjust society
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"Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized ...
"Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent book exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- Arline T. Geronimus
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- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Little, Brown Spark, 2023
- ©2023
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- viii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780316257978, 0316257974
- OCLC
- on1373099825
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-343) and index.
- Part one. The erasure, the erosion, and the withstanding -- Is working hard and playing by the rules the cure for what ails us? -- Stress and the human biological canvas -- Distressed genes and weathered cells -- Mothers and babies in jeopardy -- Collectively weathering weathering -- Killing us stealthily : the weathering effects of racialized social identity -- Weathering for success : age against the machine -- Social policy and the assault on Black family life -- Part two. The way forward -- Think biopsychosocially : address the stealth inequities that surround us -- Think holistically : transcend departments, compartments, and determinants -- Do not erase oppressed stakeholders : do nothing about us without us -- Reorient public health science and practice to better address the needs of working- and reproductive-age adults -- Recognize all our fates are linked
Subjects
- Racism -- Health aspects -- United States.
- Poverty -- Health aspects -- United States.
- Equality -- Health aspects -- United States.
- Health -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Racism in medicine -- United States.
- Health Inequities.
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- Social Determinants of Health.
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- Systemic Racism.
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- Poverty.
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- Ethnic and Racial Minorities.
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- United States.
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