On Medicine as Colonialism
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 850,000 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.
Focusing 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 deconstruct democracy itself.
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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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION: Two Stories and a Definition
- CHAPTER ONE: Medicine and Colonialism
- CHAPTER TWO: Hospitals
- CHAPTER THREE: Pharma and Pharmaceutical Retailers
- CHAPTER FOUR: Specialists, Surgicenters, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and Tests
- CHAPTER FIVE: Administrators, Consultants, Lawyers, and 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
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
