1st Edition
Health Care Reform and Globalisation The US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective
Introduction Peggy Watson Chapter 1. Producing Public Opinion: How the Insurance Industry Shaped US Health Care Wendell Potter Chapter 2. The Break-up of the NHS: Implications for Information Systems Allyson Pollock and David Price Chapter 3. Rethinking Problems Surrounding Access to Care: The Moral Economies Shaping Health Care Work Forces in Russia and the U.S. Michele Rivkin-Fish Chapter 4: Human Oriented? Angels And Monsters in China’s Healthcare Reform Mei Zhan Chapter 5: We Are All In This Together - European Policies And Health Systems Change Meri Koivusalo Chapter 6: Catastrophic Citizenship and Discourses of Disguise: Aspects of Health Care Change in Poland Peggy Watson Chapter 7: The Making of Health Care Policy in Contemporary Hungary Terry Cox and Sandor Gallai Chapter 8: Community Health Services in Urban China: A Geographical Case Study of Access to Care Yu Wang, Tanghong Jia, Jinghui Zhang, Yunli Zhang, Wen Li and Robert Haining Chapter 9: ‘Health Care and Change’: Popular Protest and Building Alternative Visions of Health Systems at the End of Empire Howard Waitzkin and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar
Biography
Peggy Watson is at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.
'Compelling and thought-provoking' - Significance
'An excellent collection of rigorous and thought-provoking papers written by some of the leading experts and presented in a highly accessible format. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in many fields, including public health.’ – Critical Public Health
‘This is a valuable and well-chosen collection of articles which illustrates the global nature of developments in health care.’ – London Progressive Journal
