Medicine and public health at the end of empire
By: Howard Waitzkin
Publisher: Paradigm Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boulder, CO
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781594519505; 9781594519512
Subjects: History; History, 21st Century; Public health; Health Services Accessibility; Social medicine; Trends; Imperialism; Health aspects; Political aspects; Public Health; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Empire's historical health component; title: Illness-generating conditions of capitalism and empire; title: The international market for health products and services; title: Paths of resistance to empire in public health and health services; title: Neoliberalism and health (with Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar); title: International trade agreements, medicine, and public health; title: Macroeconomics and health; title: The exportation of managed care; title: Corporations, international financial institutions, and health services; title: The "common sense" of health reform; title: Stakeholders' constructions of global trade, public health, and health services; title: Militarism, empire, and health; title: Health and praxis : social medicine in Latin America; title: Resistance and building an alternative future (with Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar).