1st Edition
Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care
Part 1: The Social Production of Health and Illness 1. Capitalism, Health and Illness Joe Eyer 2. A Cultural Account of ‘health’: Control, Release, and the Social Body Robert Crawford 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 J. Warren Salmon 5. The Transnational Pharmaceutical Industry and The Health of the World’s People Thomas S. Bodenheimer 6. Physicians and their Sponsors: The New Medical Relations of Production Charles Derber 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 Debabar Banerji.
Biography
John B. McKinlay was Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Medicine at Boston University, USA.
‘[The book] should serve as an excellent supplementary source for a variety of courses in the medical social sciences.’ Hans A. Baer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
