Illness is more than just biological – medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease

Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...
Miami University

Social justice interns challenged in real-world situations of social inequality

Miami University junior Isabella Turner’s internship at the Immigrant & Refugee Law Center in East Price Hill has reinforced her desire to go to law school. “This experience has opened my eyes to more ...
Salon

Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics

Adapted from "Inequality Kills Us All: Covid-19’s Health Lessons for the World," by Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H. In 1992, a publication appeared in the British Medical Journal written by Richard ...