helpful links Assignments

Helpful Links: ASSIGNMENTS

Spring 2006 Semester

Professor ? - Assignment: What Happened on My Birthday? 04/ 06

NYT microfilm (includes ads - fashion, consumer trends)

* the following day's paper will report on what happened the day before

dMarie Time Capsule: On This Day in History

http://dmarie.com/timecap/

Professor Solomon, Wayne - Assignment: Classism in American Healthcare 03/ 06

Good overall general book for sociology stratification background:

Kerbo, Harold R. Social Stratification and Inquality. (5th ed.) HN90 .S6 K47 2003

Opposing Viewpoints - Medical Ethics R724 M29273 2005 (CCRI Lincoln, Prov., Warwick)

"America's Class Structure Has Created an Unfair Health Care System" - Vicente Navarro pp.32-37

"Racial Bias is Not a Problem in the Health Care System" - Sally Satel pp.17-20

* If book is checked out retrieve same articles from Opposing Viewpoints database.

HELIN

Dangerous to Your Health: Capitalism in Health Care - Vicente Navarro (not at CCRI)

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"Reducing Health Disparities by Improving Quality of Care: Lessons Learned From Culturally Diverse Women." (Journal of Nursing Health Care Quality Jan./March 2006 pp. 86-92) Shoultz, Jan et al.

"Social Sources of Racial Disparities in Health" (Health Affairs March/ April 2005 pp.325-334) - Williams, David R. and Pamela Braboy Jackson

"Health Disparities By Race and Class: Why Both Matter" (Health Affairs March/ April 2005 pp.343-352) -Kawachi, Ichiro et al.

"US Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations" (Annual Review of Sociology 1995) Williams, David R. and Chiquita Collins

Lexis-Nexis

"Care After Heart Attack Appears Less than Equal" (New York Times March 21, 2006 p. 6) - Nicholas Bakalar [late edition]

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