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Conclusion: Their Scarcity and Our Political Cure
In our concluding chapter, we outline some common themes shared across the four neoliberal epidemics that we have identified, offering some reflections on the evidence of the ill-health effects of neoliberalis...
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Obesity: How Politics Makes Us Fat
We start with an overview of our first neoliberal epidemic—obesity. Over the last 30 years, obesity rates have doubled in countries such as the UK and the US, with over 20 and 30 per cent (respectively) of adu...
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Austerity: How Politics Has Pulled Away Our Safety Net
David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu (2013) introduce their book on austerity and its health consequences with the case of a stroke-paralysed man with limited ability to walk who was cut off disability benefits by A...
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Introduction: Politics and Health
In this introductory chapter we examine how health varies internationally among rich countries and the social, economic and political reasons for these differences. We also introduce the concept of welfare sta...
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Insecurity: How Politics Gets Under Our Skin
In this chapter we focus on the neoliberal epidemic of insecurity. Here we argue that neoliberalism has made the labour market and the world of work far less secure and consequently more stressful and health d...
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Inequality: How Politics Divides and Rules Us
Why care about inequality? Within the small local authority area of Stockton-on-Tees (population 192,000), the difference in male life expectancy between the most and least deprived areas in 2014 was 16 years ...