The Political Economy of Health
The Political Economy of Health
- 1st
- Pluto Press, 1979
- 368
This book questions fundamentally the view that ill-health and disease are misfortunes that just happen to people and which scientific medicine is dedicated to combating. Acknowledgements, Theoretical Foundations, Understanding Medicine and Health, The Social Production of Health and Illness, Health and Illness and the Development of Capitalism in Britain, Health and Illness and Underdevelopment, The Social Production of Medical Care, Public Health and Medicine and the Development of British Capitalism, The National Health Service in Britain, Women and Medicine and Social Control: The Case of the NHS, Medicine and Imperialism, References, Index.
861040740
This book questions fundamentally the view that ill-health and disease are misfortunes that just happen to people and which scientific medicine is dedicated to combating. Acknowledgements, Theoretical Foundations, Understanding Medicine and Health, The Social Production of Health and Illness, Health and Illness and the Development of Capitalism in Britain, Health and Illness and Underdevelopment, The Social Production of Medical Care, Public Health and Medicine and the Development of British Capitalism, The National Health Service in Britain, Women and Medicine and Social Control: The Case of the NHS, Medicine and Imperialism, References, Index.
861040740