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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.--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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.
Zusammenfassung
In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief.
Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. 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 co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from communities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become tools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes impossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.
