Unhealthy times : political economy perspectives on health and care
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Unhealthy times : political economy perspectives on health and care
Oxford University Press, 2001
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Bibliography: p. 242-246
Includes index
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Description
Unhealthy Times brings together some of the enormous amount of research being undertaken within a broadly defined political economy framework about health and health care. Th book is divided into three sections: Locating Health Care, with essays on homecare, globalization, and a comparison of the Canadian system with the British National Health Service; Locating Evidence, with essays on research in health services, women, and the pharmaceutical industry; and
Locating Risk, with essays on work, environmental contamination, and poverty.
Table of Contents
- PART 1: INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH AND CARE
- PART 2: LOCATING HEALTH CARE
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. The British National Health Service in the Face of Neoliberalism
- 2. From Medicare to Home Care: Globalization, State Retrenchment and the Privatization of Canada's Health Care System
- 3. Pharamaceuticals: Politics and Policy
- 4. Health, Health Care and Neoliberalism
- PART 3: LOCATING EVIDENCE
- INTRODUCTION
- 5. Toward a Sociology of Knowledge in Health Care
- 6. Evidence-Based Health Care Reform: Women's Issues
- 7. Academic Capitalism and the Not-so-Hidden Agenda: Curriculum in the Pharmaceutical Sciences
- PART 4: LOCATING RISK
- INTRODUCTION
- 8. From Increasing Poverty to Societal Disintegration: How Economic Inequality Affects the Health of Individuals and Communities
- 9. A Political Ecology of Environmental Containment?
- 10. Work and Health in the Global Economy
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