The recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the
global practice of health care changes that have often escaped the
American news media. Although Western managed-care corporations
previously had strengthened their influence abroad, now many
countries are considering new approaches to health care for their
citizens.The untold story of how corporations have influenced
global health care and the impacts now in America as the system
rapidly shifts is Dr. Waitzkin s subject in his provocative new
book. We now live in a new era in which the prospects for more
humane approaches to health care are taking root. Strengthening
access and improving public health are at the heart of the many
previously little-noted struggles and actions by individuals,
groups, and whole nations to put control back in the hands of
patients and practitioners, as Americans of many political stripes
seem to universally seek. The impacts of these changes in the
United States are considerable, and they are amply illustrated by
Dr. Waitzkin as the United States attempts to reorient its own
system of care.Selected as the 2012 winner of the Freidson
Outstanding Publication Award by the American Sociological
Association for its "bold and timely analysis of the global
political economy of contemporary crises in health and medical
care. By presenting the lessons learned from social medicine (past
and present), [it] outlines a macro-sociologically informed
response to these crises.""
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