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Health Care Under the Knife - Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health (Hardcover)
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Health Care Under the Knife - Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health (Hardcover)
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Health care professionals, activists and scholars weigh in on how
the U.S. can address the shortcomings of the medical industrial
complex and extend affordable health care to all "I've still got my
health so what do I care?" goes a lyric in an old Cole Porter song.
Most of us, in fact, assume we can't live full lives, or take on
life's challenges, without also assuming that we're basically
healthy and will be for the foreseeable future. But these days, our
health and well-being are sorted through an ever-expanding,
profit-seeking financial complex that monitors, controls, and
commodifies our very existence. Given that our access to competent,
affordable health care grows more precarious each day, the arrival
of Health Care Under the Knife could not be more timely. In this
empowering book, noted health-care professionals, scholars, and
activists--including editor Howard Waitzkin--impart their inside
knowledge of the medical system: what's wrong, how it got this way,
and what we can do to heal it. The book is comprised of individual
essays addressing the "medical industrial complex," the impact of
privatization and cutbacks under neoliberalism, the nature of
health-care work, and the intersections between health care and
imperialism, both historically and at present. We see how the
health of our bodies in "developed" countries is tied to the health
of the bodies of the labor force in the Global South, and how the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are linked
strangely, inextricably, to our physical well-being. But this
analysis would not be complete without the book's final section,
which delivers invaluable guidance for how to change this system.
Recounting case studies and successful efforts for creating a more
humane community, this book ultimately gives us hope that our
health-care system can be rescued and made an integral part of a
new and radically different society.
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