SICK and SICKER: Essays on Class, Health and Health Care

http://susanrosenthal.com/sick-and-sicker

Excerpt from the book (p.2):

Reducing income inequality in the United States would save as many lives as would be saved by eradicating heart disease or by preventing all deaths from lung cancer, diabetes, motor vehicle crashes, HIV infection, suicide and homicide combined.

Even greater benefits would flow from eliminating class inequality entirely. 

CONTENTS

• Introduction 
• Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness 
• Engels and the WHO Report 
• Mental Illness or Social Sickness? 
• The Myth of Scarcity 
• The US and Canada: Different Forms of Medical Rationing 
• The Fight for Medicare in Canada 
• Assembly-Line Medicine 
• Health Care or Damage Control? 
• The Lessons of Chile

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disasters

"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years."
-Bill McKibben

Rebecca Solnit - Author 

The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposefulness, and meaningful work that disaster often provides. A Paradise Built in Hell is an investigation of the moments of altruism, resourcefulness, and generosity that arise amid disaster's grief and disruption and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that is less authoritarian and fearful, more collaborative and local.

Rebecca Solnit is the author of numerous books, including Hope in the Dark, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, Wanderlust: A History of Walking, and As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. In 2003, she received the prestigious Lannan Literary Award.