Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care

John B. McKinlay

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Routledge
30 June 2024

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Sociology; Medical sociology

Series: Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society

Originally published in 1984, this book attempted to fill a gap by providing a broad-ranging structural analysis of the health care sector and the political and economic forces which influence its shape and contents, both in the western world and developing countries. The contributors examine the relationships of capitalism to health care, in terms of its influence on the physical environment, the incidence of social diseases and the prevailing (20th Century) view of what constitutes health itself; and in terms of the consequences of the new medical industrial complex it has created, such as the declining provision of health care for the poor and disadvantaged and the growing power of the pharmaceutical industry.

Edited by: John B. McKinlay
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032257570
ISBN 10: 1032257571
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
Pages: 302
Publication Date: 30 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1: The Social Production of Health and Illness 1. Capitalism, Health and Illness 2. A Cultural Account of ‘health’: Control, Release, and the Social Body Part 2: Capital Interests and the Role of the State 3. The crisis of the International Capitalist Order and Its Implications on the Welfare State Vincente Navarro Part 3: Selected Issues 4. Organizing Medical Care for Profit 5. The Transnational Pharmaceutical Industry and The Health of the World’s People6. Physicians and their Sponsors: The New Medical Relations of Production Part 4: The Penetration of the Developing World By the Transnational Medical Industrial Complex 7. The Political Economy of Western Medicine in Third World Countries.

John B. McKinlay was Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Medicine at Boston University, USA.

Reviews for Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care

‘[The book] should serve as an excellent supplementary source for a variety of courses in the medical social sciences.’ Hans A. Baer, Medical Anthropology Quarterly.