Merlin Press Ltd. MORBID SYMPTOMS: SOCIALIST REGISTER 2010

MORBID SYMPTOMS: SOCIALIST REGISTER 2010
Health Under Capitalism
Edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

A survey of the political economy of health.

Morbid Symptoms focuses on the economic, social and political determinants of health under global capitalism, and on health care as an object of struggle between commercial forces seeking to make it into a field of profit, and popular forces fighting to keep it - or make it - a public service with equal access for all.

Contributors survey structures of power and forces for change in national health care systems - from the UK, Germany and the USA to India, China, Sub-Saharan Africa and Cuba. They examine the impact of neo-liberal hegemony on the health industry, the WTO and the WHO; they consider key issues of international health policy:

the marketisation of public health service
HIV/AIDS in Africa;
the control of medical research and training;
the misuse of scientific data for commercial gain;
the mistreatment of mental illness,
the food industry's production of obesity and hunger, and
the turning of genes into commodities.

ISBN. 9780850366921

234 x 156 mm. Approx. 288 pages

2009 Paperback

Published October 2009
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Price:£15.95

MORBID SYMPTOMS: SOCIALIST REGISTER 2010
Health Under Capitalism
Edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys

For details see above.

ISBN. 9780850366914

2009 Hardback

Published October 2009

(approx. US$82.50)
Price:£50.00