Locating Health

Originally presented as papers in the 1991 British Sociological Association Conference on Health and Society, Locating Health represents a valuable addition to the 'health inequalities' debate by extending our gaze beyond the traditional locations to include place, consumption and lifestyle. It offers reconceptualization of key theoretical terms, including work, income, and public/private domains as well as addressing the reciprocal influence of health and social location, for example early retirement; and highlighting the health consequences of multiple locations, such as gender and class, gender and age.

Stephen Platt, Hilary Thomas, Sue Scott, Gareth Williams

List of Figures List of Tables About the editors Notes on the contributors Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Introduction 2. The Impact of Income Inequality on Life Expectancy 3. The Gendered Resource Triangle: Health and Resources in Later Life 4. Gendered Differences in Longevity and Health in Eastern and Western Europe 5. Feminism and the Health Consequences of Women's Work in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain 6. Conditions of Formal and Domestic Labour: Toward an Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Gender and Social Class Inequalities in Health 7. Health Issues in Male Early Retirement 8. Occupational Health in the UK Gas Industry: A Study of Employer, Medical and Worker Knowledge and Action on Occupational Health in the Late Nineteenth an Early Twentieth Century 9. How Do Places Shape Health? Rethinking Locality and Lifestyle in North-East England 10. The Health Costs of Britain's Industrialization: A Perspective from the Celtic Periphery 11. 'Keeping up with the Joneses?' Private Health Insurance as a Consumption Good? 12. Health and Ignorance: Past and Present Index