To Live and Die in America

Class, Power, Health and Healthcare

AvRobert Chernomas,Ian Hudson

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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Beskrivning

Reviled as one of the worst healthcare providers in the world, the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world, whilst paradoxically spending significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation. Economists Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory phenomenon as the product of the unique brand of capitalism that has developed in the US. It is this particular form of capitalism that analogously created social and economic conditions that influence health, such as, highly industrialised labour that produced chronic disease amongst the labouring classes, alongside an inefficient, unpopular and inaccessible health care system that is incapable of dealing with those same patients. In order to improve health in America, the authors argue that a change is required in the conditions in the capitalist system in which people live and work, as well as a restructured health care system.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-02-06
Mått:135 x 215 x 15 mm
Vikt:301 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Future of World Capitalism
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745332123

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Robert Chernomas is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is co-author (with Ian Hudson) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).Ian Hudson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).

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'A fascinating account of how the strength of corporate interests and the relative weakness of unions have given the United States a bloated and inefficient health care system'

Innehållsförteckning

1. Class, Power, Health and Healthcare2. The Medical Miracle?3. To Live and Die in 19th Century America: A Class Based Explanation of the Rise and Fall of Infectious Disease4. Death in Our Times: The Exceptional Class Context for Chronic Disease in America5. The Political Economy of US Healthcare: The Medical Industrial Complex6. Three Easy LessonsNotesIndex