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A courageous book that challenges the limits of what is possible.
POWER and Powerlessness
by Susan Rosenthal
Trafford Publishing, September, 2006
240 pages, quality trade paperback
ISBN: 1-4120-5691-8
EUR14.97, £10.48, C$20.96, USD $18.23
Social power is necessary for human health. Author and physician Susan Rosenthal reached this conclusion after decades of research, observation, and activism. In POWER and Powerlessness, she explains that most people lack the healthy, fulfilling lives they deserve because they are kept powerless and mistakenly accept this state of affairs as natural or self-inflicted.
Written for a popular audience, POWER and Powerlessness answers four basic questions: What’s going on? How did this happen? Why do we put up with it? What will it take?
Original, hopeful, impeccably researched, this book explains:
- Why human health and welfare depend on strong social bonds.
- Four ways that capitalism disrupts social bonds and makes people sick.
- How disrupted social bonds form the link between individual and social problems.
- How the medical system manages misery instead of ending it.
- Four major obstacles to social change.
- How to create connections that heal.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR An engaging speaker, Dr. Rosenthal has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years and has written many articles on the relationship between health and human relationships. She is also the author of Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-1937 General Motors Sit-Down Strike (1996) and Market Madness and Mental Illness: The Crisis in Mental Health Care (1999). She is a member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981.
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