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In this current environment, it is urgent to understand how oppression and health are closely connected. Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health offers a thorough and accessible overview of the root or structural causes of ill health, such as capitalism, globalization, colonialism, medicalization and neoliberalism. The contributors to this volume insist that the key to tackling these structural forces is understanding and changing oppressive practices that cause ill health, thus reframing growing health inequities within the scope of moral responsibility and social change. This thoroughly updated second edition contains contributions from internationally recognized experts in the field of critical social science analyses in health systems and health sciences studies. New chapters provide timely discussions about oppression, Treaty Rights, Big Pharma, the Anthropocene and the COVID-19 pandemic. This book provides a comprehensive overview of core ideas for investigating how oppression “gets under the skin” to perpetuate health inequities.
Teaching Learning Guide and Action Toolkit available upon request
Teaching Learning Guide and Action Toolkit available upon request. Contact: orders@fernpub.ca
— Lexy Smith-Doughty, College Quarterly
: Politicizing Health: Overview of how oppression is a social determinant of health
: Chapter 1: Introduction to Oppression: A Social Determinant of Health Elizabeth A. McGibbon
: Chapter 2: People and Planet Under Threat: Health Impacts of Oppression Elizabeth A. McGibbon
: Chapter 3: Raising the Volume on the Social Determinants of Health in Canada and Elsewhere Dennis Raphael
: Oppression in the Everyday: How Oppression Operates to Promote and Sustain Health Inequities
: Chapter 4: The Racialization of Oppression Josephine B. Etowa & Elizabeth A. McGibbon
: Chapter 5: Oppression and the Health of Indigenous Peoples Marie Battiste & James [Sa’ke’j] Youngblood Henderson
: Chapter 6: Social Exclusion as a Determinant of Health Grace-Edward Galabuzi
: Chapter 7: Oppression and Im/migrant Health in Canada Denise Spitzer and Sara Torres
: Chapter 8: The Politics of Mental Health: Pathologizing the Impacts of Injustice Elizabeth A. McGibbon
: Imperatives for Structural Change: Belling the Cat
: Chapter 9: Oppression: Redistributive Politics and Public Policy Toba Bryant
: Chapter 10: Obsessed by Profits: Big Pharma and the Corruption of Health Joel Lexchin
: Chapter 11: Aboriginal Peoples’ Constitutional Right to Health Sa’kej Youngblood Henderson
: Chapter 12: Oppression and the Political Economy of Health Inequities Elizabeth McGibbon & Lars K. Hallstrom
: Chapter 13: Human Rights and Health Elizabeth McGibbon & Maureen Shebib
: Chapter 14: COVID-19: Oppressions Laid Bare Scott Aquanno, Toba Bryant, Josephine B. Etowa, Joel Lexchin, Elizabeth McGibbon, Dennis Raphael, Denise Spitzer, & Sarah Torres