| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Disobedience : doctor workers unite! / Howard Waitzkin -- Becoming employees : the deprofessionalization and emerging social class position of health professionals / Matt Anderson -- The degradation of medical labor and the meaning of quality in health care / Gordon Schiff and Sarah Winch -- The political economy of health reform / David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler -- The transformation of the medical industrial complex : financialization, the corporate sector, and monopoly capital / Matt Anderson and Robb Burlage -- The pharmaceutical industry in the context of contemporary capitalism / Joel Lexchin -- Obamacare : the neoliberal model comes home to roost in the United States, if we let it / Howard Waitzkin and Ida Hellander -- Austerity and health care / Adam Gaffney and Carles Muntaner -- Imperialism's health component / Howard Waitzkin and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar -- U.S. philanthrocapitalism and the global health agenda : the Rockefeller and Gates foundations, past and present / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Judith Richter -- Resisting the imperial order and building an alternative future in medicine and public health / Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar and Howard Waitzkin -- The failure of Obamacare and a revision of the single payer proposal after a quarter century of struggle / Adam Gaffney, David Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler -- Overcoming pathological normalcy : mental health challenges in the coming transformation / Carl Ratner -- Confronting the social and environmental determinants of health / Carles Muntaner and Rob Wallace -- Conclusion : moving beyond capitalism for our health / Adam Gaffney and Howard Waitzkin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 10, 2018) |
| Subject |
Social medicine -- United States
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Medical care -- United States.
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Medical economics -- United States
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Health care reform -- United States
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Social medicine.
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Health care reform.
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Social Medicine
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Delivery of Health Care -- economics
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Physician's Role
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Capitalism
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Health Care Reform
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Social Determinants of Health
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Health care reform
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Medical care
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Medical economics
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Social medicine
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| SUBJECT |
United States |
| Subject |
United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Waitzkin, Howard, editor.
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Working Group for Health Beyond Capitalism, editor.
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| LC no. |
2017059403 |
| ISBN |
9781583676776 |
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1583676775 |
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9781583676769 |
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1583676767 |
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