Ecosocial Theory, Embodied Truths, and the People's Health

From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health justice and the embodied truths of lived experience.

Since the 1700s, fierce debates in medicine and public health have centered around whether sources of ill health can be attributed to either the individual or the surrounding body politic. But what if instead health researchers measure—and policies address—how people biologically embody their societal and ecological context?

Ecosocial Theory, Embodied T...