Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism
Socialist Register 2010
Panitch, Leo & Leys, Colin [eds.]
Publisher: The Merlin Press
Year Published: 2009
ISBN: 978-0-85036-692-1
Dewey: 362.1
Resource Type: Unclassified
Healthcare today is the object of struggle between commercial forces seeking to make it a field of capital accumulation, and popular forces fighting to keep it--or make it--a public service with equal access for all. This volume focuses on the historical, economic, social and political determinants of health under capitalism.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface - Leo Panitch & Colin Leys
Health, health care and capitalism - Colin Leys
The nature of health care: commodification versus solidarity - Hans-Ulrich Deppe
Inequality and health - David Coburn
Certain wealth: accumulation in the health industry - Rodney Loeppky
Marketing global health care: the practices of big pharma - Kalman Applbaum
US health reform and the Stockholm syndrome - Marie Gottschalk
The marketisation of health care in Europe - Cristoph Hermann
Contradictions at work: struggles for control in Canadian health care - Pat & Hugh Armstrong
Maternal mortality in Africa: a gendered lens on health system failure - Paula Tibandebage & Maureen Mackintosh
Between obesity and hunger: the capitalist food industry - Robert Albritton
Medical TV dramas: health care as soap opera - Lesley Henderson
Cuban health politics at home and abroad - Julie Feinsilver
China's double movement in health care - Shaoguang Wang
'Health for All' and neoliberal globalisation: an Indian rope trick - Mohan Rao
The shaping of global health policy - Meri Koivusalo
Building a comprehensive public health movement: learning from HIV/AIDS mobilisations - Sanjay Basu
Mental health in a sick society: what are people for? - Julian Tudor Hart
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