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Originally published in 1973 and now reissued with a new Preface, this striking book challenges the whole structure of our thinking on how societies develop - why some are primitive and others advanced.

Originally published in 1986, this book discusses issues such as social class differences in health, the effect of unemployment on health, the relationship between income and health, how much of the class differences in death rates can be explained in terms of medically recognized factors.

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This book explores the effects that social and economic differences have on our health as individuals and as whole societies. Richard Wilkinson argues that this takes us to the roots of social malaise and also makes suggestions about the changes required to increase life expectancy and the quality of life for us all.

Among the developed countries it is not the richest societies which have the best health, but those which have the smallest income differences between rich and poor. Inequality and relative poverty have absolute effects: they increase death rates. But why? How can smaller income differences raise average life expectancy?Using examples from the USA, Britain, Japan and Eastern Europe, and bringing together evidence from the social and medical sc...

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so- Vorwort XXII zialen Entwicklung moderner Gesellschaften - zu verandern.