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Medicine and public health at the end of empire / Howard Waitzkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waitzkin, Howard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Imperialism--Health aspects.
- Imperialism.
- Public health--Political aspects.
- Public health.
- Public Health--history.
- Public Health--trends.
- Health Services Accessibility--history.
- Health Services Accessibility--trends.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health--history.
- Public Health--trends.
- Health Services Accessibility--history.
- Health Services Accessibility--trends.
- History, 20th Century.
- History, 21st Century.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2011]
- Contents:
- Empire's historical health component
- Illness-generating conditions of capitalism and empire
- The international market for health products and services
- Paths of resistance to empire in public health and health services
- Neoliberalism and health (with Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar)
- International trade agreements, medicine, and public health
- Macroeconomics and health
- The exportation of managed care
- Corporations, international financial institutions, and health services
- The "common sense" of health reform
- Stakeholders' constructions of global trade, public health, and health services
- Militarism, empire, and health
- Health and praxis : social medicine in Latin America
- Resistance and building an alternative future (with Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594519505
- 1594519501
- 9781594519512
- 159451951X
- OCLC:
- 660509887
- Publisher Number:
- 99942736976
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