Health and medical care in the U.S. : a critical analysis

Author(s)

• Navarro, Vicente

Bibliographic Information

Health and medical care in the U.S. : a critical analysis

edited by Vicente Navarro

（Policy, politics, health, and medicine series, 1）

Baywood Pub. Co., c1977

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A collection of papers that challenge the conventional analyses of the problems facing health, medicine and medical care in Western societies in general, and North America in particular.

Table of Contents

Preface PART 1: The Definition of Health and Medicine The Social Nature of the Definition of Health Sander Kelman Functionalism and After? Theory and Developments in Social Science Applied to the Health Field Ronald Frankenberg The Industrialization of Fetishism or the Fetishism of IndustrializationaEURO"A Critique of Ivan Illich Vicente Navarro PART 2: The Political Economy of Health Care Health Care in the United States: Who Pays? Thomas S. Bodenheimer Capitalizing on Illness: The Health Insurance Industry Thomas Bodenheimer, Steven Cummings, and Elizabeth Harding The Political Economy of Medical CareaEURO"An Explanation of the Composition, Nature, and Functions of the Present Health Sector of the United States Vicente Navarro PART 3: The Political Sociology of Gender and Functions Women and Health Care: A Comparison of Theories Elizabeth Fee PART 4: The Political Sociology of the State Intervention On the Structural Constraints to State Intervention in Health Marc Renaud

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Details

• NCID: BA25082257
• ISBN:
  • 0895030004
• LCCN: 77070380
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Farmingdale, N.Y.
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 148 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA20460379