What can society tell us about health? What does health tell us about society and the impact of social structure on human relations?
SPEAKER: Dr. Richard WIlkinson
Dr. Richard Wilkinson will give a presentation on his ground-breaking research into links between poverty, violence, social structure and health.
Dr. Richard Wilkinson’’s research into patterns of disease, violence and death within and between societies poses profound questions about the connections between health and social structure.
Dr. Wilkinson is now Professor of Social Epidemiology at the University of Nottingham Medical School and visiting professor and Associate Director of the International Centre for Health and Society at University College London. His book, Unhealthy Societies: the afflictions of inequality (Routledge, 1996), has been described as marking a paradigm shift in the understanding of the social determinants of health, and was the subject of a British Channel 4 documentary in the Equinox series. His most recent book is Mind the Gap: hierarchies, health and human evolution (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001 and Yale University Press 2001).