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"Historicising Gender and Sexuality features a diverse collection of essays that shed new light on the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across time and space. Features a wide and diverse range of scholarship to explore the historical intersections between gender and sexuality across space and time Demonstrates both the particularities of specific formulations of gender and sexuality and the nature of the relationship between the categories themselves Presents evidence that careful and contextualised analysis of the shifting relationship of gender and sexuality illuminates broader historical processes"--

In 1998, health expenditures in the United States accounted for 12.9% of national income-the highest share of income devoted to health in the developed world. The United States also spends more on medical research than any other country-in 2000, the federal government dedicated 18.4 billion to it, compared with only 3.7 billion for the entire European Union. In this book, leading health economists ask whether we are getting our money's worth.From an economic perspective, they find, the answer is a resounding "yes": in fact, considering the extraordinary value of improvements to health, we may

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I. The Effect of Social Capital on Market Behavior -- 1. The Importance of Social Interactions -- 2. Social Forces, Preferences, and Complementarity -- 3. Are Choices "Rational" When Social Capital Is Important? -- II. The Formation of Social Capital -- 4. Sorting by Marriage -- 5. Segregation and Integration in Neighborhoods -- 6. The Social Market for the Great Masters and Other Collectibles -- 7. Social Markets and the Escalation of Quality: The World of Veblen Revisited -- 8. Status and Inequality -- III. Fads, Fashions, and Norms -- 9. Fads and Fashion -- 10. The Formation of Norms and Values -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.