 | Confronting an Ill Society: David Widgery, General Practice, Idealism and the Chase for Change by Patrick Hutt
Buy new: £18.95 / Used from: £11.92 sick people or sick societies? Diseased bodies or a diseased body politic? David Widgery's life raised these questions.Patrick Hutt actually wote the book, with Smith providing the introduction
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 | A New Kind of Doctor by Julian Tudor Hart
Buy new: £13.56 / Used from: £0.42 Julian Tudor-Hart's description of what general practice could be
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 | The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier by Richard G. Wilkinson
Buy new: £17.54 / Used from: £14.70 Richard Wilkinson summarises his life's work in this field. Unequal societies are bad both the rich and the poor
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 | Status Syndrome: How Your Social Standing Directly Affects Your Health by Michael Marmot
Buy new: £6.39 / Used from: £3.02 Michael Marmot summarises his life's work in this field, especially his work in the Whitehall 1 and 2 studies. Comparing ourselves to others is bad for our health
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 | Inequalities in Health: The Black Report and the Health Divide (Penguin Social Sciences) by Margaret Whitehead
Buy used from: £4.93 A good day to bury bad news? The Report the Tories tried to bury on a bank holiday weekend.
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 | Health (Key Concepts) by Mildred Blaxter
Buy new: £13.69 / Used from: £11.08 Mildred Blaxter's summary of her attempts to reach a positive definition of health
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 | Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
Buy new: £9.49 / Used from: £12.18 The acerbic Doctor Dalrymple describes dealing with the underclass
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 | Beyond Depression: A new approach to understanding and management (Oxford Medical Publications) by Christopher Dowrick
Buy new: £27.55 / Used from: £15.95 Chris Dowrick's superb deconstruction of the idea of "depression" as a simple illness. There's more to it than serotonin deficiency needing medication.
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 | NHS Plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care by Allyson M Pollock
Buy new: £10.87 / Used from: £3.24 Allyson Pollock's masterly description of the dismemberment of the NHS and how this could make existing inequalities even worse.
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 | Why the New NHS Will Fail and What Should Replace it by Roger Dyson
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £7.99 Roger Dyson's analysis of why the NHS will fail, no matter how much hyperactive reform is thrown at it
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 | The Welfare State We're In by James Bartholomew
Buy new: £11.74 / Used from: £4.95 James Bartholemew's argument about how the welfare state despite its good intentions in practice ends up making inequalities even worse.
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 | The Political Economy of Health Care: A Clinical Perspective (Health & Society) by Julian Tudor Hart
Buy new: £13.57 / Used from: £10.00 Julian Tudor- Hart's damning indictment of current government health policy
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 | Plundering the Public Sector by David Craig
Buy new: £9.99 / Used from: £1.95 David Craig's expose of where the NHS cash supposed to reduce health inequalities has gone in to making consulting companies ever more equal than others
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 | Thinking About Patients by David Misselbrook
Buy new: £28.45 / Used from: £114.95 David Misselbrook's superb wide ranging analysis of doctors and patients talking, and of the contexts within which their interactions occur
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