On medicine as colonialism / Michael Fine ; foreword by Christopher Koller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fine, Michael, author.

Contributor:

Koller, Christopher, writer of supplementary textual content.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--United States.

Public health.

Health--Social aspects.

Health.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oakland, CA : PM Press, [2023]

Summary:

In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine shows how the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the costly failure of the American health care system into bold relief. At over one million deaths and climbing, the US had more deaths than any other nation in the world and one of the highest per capita death rates. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world.0Focusing on how health care profiteers use state?s power and control of health care purchasing to extract resources from communities, On Medicine as Colonialism reveals how medicine and health care have become not only antithetical to health but tools of colonialism, that are being used to dismantle democracy itself.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.

Contents:

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Two Stories and a Definition

Medicine and Colonialism

Hospitals

Pharma and Pharmaceutical Retailers

Specialists, Surgicenters, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and Tests

Administrators, Consultants, Lawyers, and Doctors

Primary Care

Insurance Companies

Research

Medical Colonialism as, Well, Colonialism Itself

COVID-19

Final Thoughts, Summary and Conclusions, and a Little about How to Fix This Mess.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Fine, Michael On Medicine as Colonialism

ISBN:

9781629639949

OCLC:

1348488316