Vicente Navarro: 7 books

This volume provides a timely collection of the most germane studies and commentaries on the complex links between recent changes in national economies, welfare regimes, social inequalities, and population health. Drs. Vicente Navarro and Carles Muntaner have selected 24 representative articles, organized...

Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health...

A collection of papers that challenge the conventional analyses of the problems facing health, medicine and medical care in Western societies in general, and North America in particular.

While the health effects of many aspects of life, from diet to marital status, have been extensively explored, little study has been made of the health effects of work. Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers, the role of unions in worker protection, and occupational health in both developed and...

This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. They, and not the people, are those who determine the policies of the U.S. government. The volume shows how the United States could indeed provide comprehensive...

EI presente trabajo trata de aproximar la atención al menor desde diferentes enfoques. las prácticas basadas en la evidencia constituyen experiencias contrastadas, válidas y novedosas para afrontar los riesgos que envuelven el espacio global. Este ha sido nuestro punto de referencia: partir de...

La presente obra se articula en torno a la conmemoración de los sesenta años de la aparición del libro Insight de Bernard Lonergan. Insight recoge la tradición socrática del autoconocimiento, que pasa por Pascal y llega a su plenitud en Kierkegaard, pero lo hace articulándose con otras grandes...