
On Medicine as Colonialism
Michael Fine(Author)
PM Press
Published on 16. February 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
192 pages
978-1-62963-990-1 (ISBN)
Description
In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine shows how the Covid-19 pandemic has thrown the costly failure of the American health care system into bold relief. At over one million deaths and climbing, the US had more deaths than any other nation in the world and one of the highest per capita death rates. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world.0Focusing on how health care profiteers use state's power and control of health care purchasing to extract resources from communities, On Medicine as Colonialism reveals how medicine and health care have become not only antithetical to health but tools of colonialism, that are being used to dismantle democracy itself.--
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oakland
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 218 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-62963-990-1 (9781629639901)
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Person
Michael Fine is a community organizer, family physician, public health official, and public health policy provocateur. He is the author of Health Care Revolt, Abundance, and The Bull and Other Stories.
Content
Introduction: Two Stories and A Definition
Chapter One: Medicine and Colonialism
Chapter Two: Hospitals
Chapter Three: Pharma and Pharmaceutical Retailers
Chapter Four: Specialists, Surgi-centers, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and Tests
Chapter Five: Administrators, Consultants, Lawyers, Doctors
Chapter Six: Primary Care
Chapter Seven: Insurance Companies
Chapter Eight: Research
Chapter Nine: Medical Colonialism as, well, Colonialism Itself
Chapter Ten: Covid-19
Chapter Eleven: Final Thoughts, Summary and Conclusions, and a Little About How to Fix This Mess
Chapter One: Medicine and Colonialism
Chapter Two: Hospitals
Chapter Three: Pharma and Pharmaceutical Retailers
Chapter Four: Specialists, Surgi-centers, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and Tests
Chapter Five: Administrators, Consultants, Lawyers, Doctors
Chapter Six: Primary Care
Chapter Seven: Insurance Companies
Chapter Eight: Research
Chapter Nine: Medical Colonialism as, well, Colonialism Itself
Chapter Ten: Covid-19
Chapter Eleven: Final Thoughts, Summary and Conclusions, and a Little About How to Fix This Mess