Description |
xiv, 325 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Series |
Social register ; 2010 |
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Socialist register (London, England) ; 2010
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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.
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Medical care.
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Medical corporations.
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Medical economics.
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Socialism -- Periodicals.
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World politics -- 21st century -- Periodicals.
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Genre/Form |
Periodicals.
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Author |
Leys, Colin.
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Panitch, Leo.
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ISBN |
0850366917 (Merlin Press : hbk.) |
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0850366925 (Merlin Press : pbk.) |
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9780850366914 (Merlin Press : hbk.) |
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9780850366921 (Merlin Press : pbk.) |
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9781552663288 (Fernwood Publishing : pbk.) |
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9781583672037 (Monthly Review Press : pbk.) |
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