| Description |
x, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 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, Colin Leys, Queen's University -- 2. From Medicare to Home Care: Globalization, State Retrenchment and the Privatization of Canada's Health Care System, Paul Williams, Raisa Deber, Pat Baranek, and Alina Gildiner, all at University of Toronto -- 3. Pharamaceuticals: Politics and Policy, Joel Lexchin, University of Toronto -- 4. Health, Health Care and Neoliberalism, David Coburn -- Part 3: Locating Evidence -- Introduction -- 5. Toward a Sociology of Knowledge in Health Care, Eric Mykhalovskiy, York University -- 6. Evidence-Based Health Care Reform: Women's Issues, Pat Armstrong -- 7. Academic Capitalism and the Not-so-Hidden Agenda: Curriculum in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, Linda Muzzin, University of Toronto -- Part 4: Locating Risk -- Introduction -- 8. From Increasing Poverty to Societal Disintegration: How Economic Inequality Affects the Health of Individuals and Communities, Dennis Raphael, University of Toronto -- 9. A Political Ecology of Environmental Containment?, John Eyles, McMaster Institute of Environment and Health -- 10. Work and Health in the Global Economy, Peggy McDonough, York University |
| Summary |
"Health and health care are at the pop of the public agenda, not only in Canada but throughout the world. Canada's most cherished social program -- health care -- is being transformed in many ways, some highly visible and others hidden from public view."--Cover |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health care reform -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
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Medical policy -- Economic aspects -- Canada.
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Health Care Reform -- economics.
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Economics, Medical.
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Health Policy -- economics.
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| SUBJECT |
Canada. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170 |
| Author |
Armstrong, Hugh, 1943-
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Armstrong, Pat, 1945-
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Coburn, David, 1938-
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| LC no. |
2001269590 |
| ISBN |
0195415094 (alk. paper) |
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