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International Journal of Epidemiology 2003;32:332-335
© International Epidemiological Association 2003

Editorial

Seeing social position: visualizing class in life and death

Mary Shaw1, Helena Tunstall2 and George Davey Smith1

1 Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR, UK.
2 School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

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There is a ‘magician’ Derren Brown who has recently been featuring on British television (www.derrenbrown.co.uk). One of his tricks is to stop a passer-by in the street and then, by using his apparently ‘psychic powers’, to guess their occupation. This produces an amusingly amazed reaction from the member of the public, but what Brown does is really a more extreme version of what we do many times a day—gauging social position from visual cues. When we look at an individual we quickly process visual information that denotes where they fit in the social world, and we do this predominantly without conscious thought.

Visual indicators of class and wealth have played an important part in the historical development of the understanding of the relationship between class and health. Accounts of poverty and ill health in the 19th century frequently included descriptions of the physical effects of poverty upon the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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