Howard Waitzkin is Professor and Director, Division of Community Medicine, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico.

Superb. . . . Stands out like a beacon amidst confusion. . . . The richness of detail and evidence adduced to support the arguments are exceptional.

• Chapter 1 List of Figures and TablesChapter 2 Preface to the Second EditionChapter 3 Preface to the First Edition and AcknowledgmentsPart 4 I: Medicine, Social Structure, and Social PathologyChapter 5 1. Health Care, Social Contradictions, and the Dilemmas of ReformChapter 6 2. Social Structures of Medical OppressionChapter 7 3. The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected HistoryPart 8 II: Problems in Contemporary Health CareChapter 9 4. Technology, Health Costs, and the Structure of Private ProfitChapter 10 5. Social Medicine and the CommunityChapter 11 6. The Micropolitics of the Doctor-Patient RelationshipPart 12 III: Policy, Practice, and Social ChangeChapter 13 7. Medicine and Social Change: Lessons from Chile and CubaChapter 14 8. Conclusion: Health Praxis, Reform, and Political StruggleChapter 15 NotesChapter 16 Selected BibliographyChapter 17 IndexChapter 18 About the Author