Unhealthy Times
Political Economy Perspectives on Health and Care in Canada
Published on 29. March 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-19-541509-4 (ISBN)
Description
Unhealthy Times brings together some of the enormous amount of research being undertaken within a broadly defined political economy framework about health and health care. Th book is divided into three sections: Locating Health Care, with essays on homecare, globalization, and a comparison of the Canadian system with the British National Health Service; Locating Evidence, with essays on research in health services, women, and the pharmaceutical industry; and
Locating Risk, with essays on work, environmental contamination, and poverty.
Locating Risk, with essays on work, environmental contamination, and poverty.
Reviews / Votes
A useful book for both the specialist academic and for those with a general interest in Canadian health policy and issues. * Social Policy *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
tables and graphs
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
365 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-541509-4 (9780195415094)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Pat Armstrong is in the Department of Sociology, York University. Hugh Armstrong is in the Department of Social Work, Carleton University. David Coburn is in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto.
Content
PART 1: INTRODUCTION: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH AND CARE ; PART 2: LOCATING HEALTH CARE ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. The British National Health Service in the Face of Neoliberalism ; 2. From Medicare to Home Care: Globalization, State Retrenchment and the Privatization of Canada's Health Care System ; 3. Pharamaceuticals: Politics and Policy ; 4. Health, Health Care and Neoliberalism ; PART 3: LOCATING EVIDENCE ; INTRODUCTION ; 5. Toward a Sociology of Knowledge in Health Care ; 6. Evidence-Based Health Care Reform: Women's Issues ; 7. Academic Capitalism and the Not-so-Hidden Agenda: Curriculum in the Pharmaceutical Sciences ; PART 4: LOCATING RISK ; INTRODUCTION ; 8. From Increasing Poverty to Societal Disintegration: How Economic Inequality Affects the Health of Individuals and Communities ; 9. A Political Ecology of Environmental Containment? ; 10. Work and Health in the Global Economy