Five American authors on wealth, poverty, and inequality.
There is much to be gleaned from novels concerning the links between wealth and power, inequality and corruption, poverty and illness. A student of social epidemiology will profit as much from close reading of these classics as from consulting textbooks on social stratification.
Kawachi
Ichiro
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Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Ichiro.Kawachi@channing.harvard.edu
Howden Chapman
Philippa
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D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D011203:Poverty; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States