Our own Stephen Bezruchka is the featured speaker on next week's
Alternative Radio program.

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Wednesday 8:00pm - 9:00pm; also re-airs ONLINE Saturday 3:00pm - 4:00pm:
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Mary Anne

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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:38:16 -0700
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Subject: Alternative Radio: Health & Wealth

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Re: Alternative Radio: Health & Wealth

Stephen Bezruchka on Health & Wealth

For most of us in the developed world, death is so remote we don't even concern
ourselves with it. Later in life, it becomes a distant, inevitable reality, but
still nothing for immediate concern. Then, as Rudyard Kipling wrote, "Man dies
too soon, beside his works half-planned."

Health and longevity are based upon factors we can all acknowledge: genetics,
lifestyle and luck among them. They are also largely taken for granted. But as
Stephen Bezruchka explains, social class has a far more profound effect in the
US than we realize, in ways we wouldn't guess, even for the many of us who
consider ourselves middle class.

Stephen Bezruchka is a senior lecturer at the University of Washington and
works as an emergency room physician in Seattle. His particular areas of
research are population health and societal hierarchy and its application to
health. He is author of numerous articles and essays. His most recent
contribution is to Sickness and Wealth, a collection of essays on the effects
of global corporatization on health.


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