Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care

Herausgeber: McKinlay, John B.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781032257570
• ISBN-10: 1032257571
• Artikelnr.: 70146383

Autorenporträt

John B. McKinlay was Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Medicine at Boston University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Social Production of Health and Illness 1. Capitalism, Health
and Illness 2. A Cultural Account of 'health': Control, Release, and the
Social Body Part 2: Capital Interests and the Role of the State 3. The
crisis of the International Capitalist Order and Its Implications on the
Welfare State Vincente Navarro Part 3: Selected Issues 4. Organizing
Medical Care for Profit 5. The Transnational Pharmaceutical Industry and
The Health of the World's People6. Physicians and their Sponsors: The New
Medical Relations of Production Part 4: The Penetration of the Developing
World By the Transnational Medical Industrial Complex 7. The Political
Economy of Western Medicine in Third World Countries.