Gender, Race, Class, and Health examines relationships between economic structures, race, culture, and gender, and their combined influence on health. The authors systematically apply social and behavioral science to inspect how these dimensions intersect to influence health and health care in the United States. This examination brings into sharp focus the potential for influencing policy to improve health through a more complete understanding of the structural nature of race, gender, and class disparities in health. As useful as it is readable, this book is ideal for students and professionals in public health, sociology, anthropology, and women’s studies.
About the Author
Amy J. Schulz, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a research associate professor with joint appointments in the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and associate director of the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health at the University of Michigan.
Leith Mullings, Ph.D., is Presidential Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and recipient of the Prize for Distinguished Achievement in the Critical Study of North America (1997) from the Society for the Anthropology of North America.
Features
Editors’ reputation: Schultz, an up and coming academic star, is already among the best known social scientists working in a public health setting, at the internationally acclaimed School of Public Health at University of Michigan. Mullings has a distinguished appointment with one of the top U.S. anthropology programs..
Breaking Ground: The book employs the concept of “intersectionality”, which enhances the analysis of thorny social issues. The “intersectionality” approach is moving at top speed from the social sciences into public health. Ideal for the student or uninitiated practitioner, the book includes chapters with the needed background on key theories of health disparities so that no one gets left behind.
Major-name contributors: Among them: H. Jack Geiger, Community Medicine and Director of the Program in Health, Medicine, and Society, Sophie Davis School of Medicine City College of New York, Mary Northridge, School of Public Health, Columbia University, and editor, American Journal of Public Health (published by APHA), and Ruth Zambrana, Professor, Women’s Studies, University of Maryland, College Park (coeditor of Health Issues in the Latino Community, Jossey-Bass)
