<B>A celebrated analysis of inequality's impact on human health.</B><br/><br/>Praised by <I>The Lancet</I>, which called it a "lucid account that .deserves to be read by everybody interested in the politics of health," and the <I>New England Journal of Medicine, The Health of Nations</I> provides powerful evidence that growing inequality is undermining health, welfare, and community life in America. The book's prizewinning authors also make an urgent argument for social justice as a necessary vehicle for the betterment of society.<br/><br/><I>The Health of Nations</I> is the synthesis of years of groundbreaking research on the connections between social structures and health and welfare, and one which Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen says "has much to offer in reshaping the agenda of the debate on health care." Now in a revised edition which includes a new afterword, it dramatically demonstrates that growing inequalities, far from being a benign by