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Title Health care under the knife : moving beyond capitalism for our health / [edited] by Howard Waitzkin and the Working Group on Health beyond Capitalism.

Publication Info. New York : Monthly Review Press, [2018]

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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Social medicine -- United States.
Social medicine.
United States.
Medical care -- United States.
Medical care.
Medical economics -- United States.
Health care reform -- United States.
Medical economics.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
Health care reform.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Medical care.
Added Author Waitzkin, Howard, editor.
Working Group for Health Beyond Capitalism, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Health care under the knife. New York : Monthly Review Press, [2018] 9781583676745 (DLC) 2017058687
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