Sources of extracts Foreword S. V. Subramanian, Professor of Population Health and Geography, Harvard School of Public Health Acknowledgements Section I: The long view 1. Unequal health: why a scandal, and why now? 2. The long view: from 1817 to 2012 3. The ghost of Christmas past: health effects of poverty in London in 1896 and 1991 4. Infant mortality and social progress in Britain, 1905-2005 5. Who cares in England and Wales? The Positive Care Law Section II: The liberal record 6.
Paving the way for 'any willing provider' to privatise the NHS 7. Health inequalities and New Labour: how the promises compare with real progress 8. Closer to equality? Assessing New Labour's record on health after 10 years in government 9. Social harm and social policy in Britain 10. Inequalities in premature mortality in Britain: observational study from 1921 to 2007 Section III: Medicine and politics 11. Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale 12. Time for a smoke: one cigarette is equivalent to 11 minutes of life expectancy 13. Private finance: 'Select Committee's report used parliamentary privilege unacceptably' 14.
Government cover-ups: Labour's 'Black Report' moment 15. Putting the sick to work: the real Mental Health Bill 16. Losing votes and voters: would action on inequality have saved New Labour? 17. Mapping inequalities in Britain 18. London's political landscapes Section IV: Despair and joy 19. Preserving sanity when everything is related to everything else 20. Suicide: the spatial and social components of despair in Britain, 1980-2000 21. How suicide rates have risen during periods of Conservative government, 1901-2000 22.
The inequality hypothesis: thesis, antithesis and a synthesis 23. Housing and identity: how place makes race 24. Border controls? Here's a long line of reasons to relax 25. 'Poor kids', interview with Kerry O'Brien, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Section V: Global inequality 26. Less suffering 27. How do the other four fifths live? 28. Global inequality of life expectancy due to AIDS 29. Life expectancy: women now on top everywhere 30.
Mortality in relation to sex in the affluent world 31. Anamorphosis, the geography of physicians, and mortality 32. The global impact of income inequality on health by age: an observational study 33. Wars, massacres and atrocities of the 20th century 34. Re-evaluating self-evaluation. A commentary on Jen, Jones and Johnston 35. America's debt to the world Section VI: Thinking, drawing and counting 36. It's the way that you do it 37.
Worldmapper: the human anatomy of a small planet 38. Using statistics to describe and explore data 39. Socio-demographic diversity and unexplained variation in death rates among the most deprived areas in Britain 40. What if it were not the custard cream that did for them? Section VII: Changing demographics and ageing populations 41. Growing old gracefully 42. Measuring the impact of major life events on happiness 43. Roads, casualties and public health: the open sewers of the 21st century 44. Tackling global health inequalities: closing the health gap in a generation 45.
How will we care for the centenarians of the future? 46. We're all . just little bits of history repeating 47. Future people and shifting power 48. Looking on the bright side Index.