Well
What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 30 May 2019
- ISBN 9780190916831
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 213x147x30 mm
- Weight 431 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In WELL, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health.
A deeply affecting work that is at once rigorous and person, Well examines the subtle and not-so-subtle factors that determine who gets to be healthy in America.
Sandro Galea argues that the country's failing health is a product of the society and culture Americans have built for ourselves -- not just in lifestyle, but in the separations entrenched across the spectrum of American experience.
Long description:
In WELL, physician Sandro Galea examines what Americans miss when they fixate on healthcare: health.
Americans spend more money on health than people anywhere else in the world. And what do they get for it? Statistically, not much. Americans today live shorter, less healthy lives than citizens of other rich countries, and these trends show no signs of letting up.
The problem, physician Sandro Galea argues, is that Americans focus on the wrong things when they think about health. Our national understanding of what constitutes "being well" is centered on medicine -- the lifestyles we adopt to stay healthy, the insurance plans and prescriptions we fall back on when we're not. And while all these things are important, they've not proven to be the difference between healthy and unhealthy on the large scale.
Well is a radical examination of the subtle and not-so-subtle factors that determine who gets to be healthy in America. Galea argues that the country's failing health is a product of the society and culture Americans have built for ourselves -- not just in lifestyle, but in the separations entrenched across the spectrum of American experience.
A deeply affecting work that is at once rigorous and personal, Well ushers a new understanding of the problems and promise of health in America.
With Galea's narrative storytelling ... our national public health crisis feels fresh, raw, and urgent.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1. Past
Chapter 2. Money
Chapter 3. Power
Chapter 4. Politics
Chapter 5. Place
Chapter 6. People
Chapter 7. Love and Hate
Chapter 8. Compassion
Chapter 9. Knowledge
Chapter 10. Humility
Chapter 11. Freedom
Chapter 12. Choice
Chapter 13. Luck
Chapter 14. The Many
Chapter 15. The Few
Chapter 16. The Public Good
Chapter 17. Fairness and Justice
Chapter 18. Pain and Pleasure
Chapter 19. Death
Chapter 20. Values
