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Title Morbid symptoms : health under capitalism / edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys
Published Pontypool : Merlin, 2009

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 W'BOOL  335.005 Pan/Msh  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series Social register ; 2010
Socialist register (London, England) ; 2010
Contents 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 / Christoph Hermann -- Contradictions at work : struggles for control in Canadian health care / Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong -- Maternal mortality in Africa : a gendered lens on health system failure / Paula Tibandebage and 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
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Integrity -- Periodicals.
Medical care.
Medical corporations.
Medical economics.
Socialism -- Periodicals.
World politics -- 21st century -- Periodicals.
Genre/Form Periodicals.
Author Leys, Colin.
Panitch, Leo.
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