Health care under the knife : moving beyond capitalism for our health / [edited by] Howard Waitzkin and the Working Group for Health Beyond Capitalism.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waitzkin, Howard, editor.

Working Group for Health Beyond Capitalism, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, [2018]

Summary:

Health care professionals, activists and scholars weigh in on how the U.S.can address the shortcomings of the "medical industrial complex" and extend affordable health care to all "I've still got my health so what do I care?" goes a lyric in an old Cole Porter song.

Contents:

Disobedience : doctor workers unite! / Howard Waitzkin

Becoming employees : the deprofessionalization and emerging social class position of health professionals / Matt Anderson

The degradation of medical labor and the meaning of quality in health care / Gordon Schiff and Sarah Winch

The political economy of health reform / David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler

The transformation of the medical industrial complex : financialization, the corporate sector, and monopoly capital / Matt Anderson and Robb Burlage

The pharmaceutical industry in the context of contemporary capitalism / Joel Lexchin

Obamacare : the neoliberal model comes home to roost in the United States, if we let it / Howard Waitzkin and Ida Hellander

Austerity and health / Adam Gaffney and Carles Muntaner

Imperialism's health component / Howard Waitzkin and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar

U.S. philanthrocapitalism and the global health agenda : the Rockefeller and Gates foundations, past and present / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Judith Richter

Resisting the imperial order and building an alternative future in medicine and public health / Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar and Howard Waitzkin

The failure of Obamacare and a revision of the single payer proposal after a quarter century of struggle / Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler

Overcoming pathological normalcy : mental health challenges in the coming transformation / Carl Ratner

Confronting the social and environmental determinants of health / Carles Muntaner and Rob Wallace

Conclusion : moving beyond capitalism for our health / Adam Gaffney and Howard Waitzkin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

1-58367-677-5

OCLC:

1019845861