To Live and Die in America - Class, Power, Health and Healthcare

Informationen zum Autor Robert Chernomas is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is co-author (with Ian Hudson) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013). Ian Hudson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013). Klappentext Reviled as one of the worst healthcare providers in the world, the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world, whilst paradoxically spending significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation. Economists Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory phenomenon as the product of the unique brand of capitalism that has developed in the US. It is this particular form of capitalism that analogously created social and economic conditions that influence health, such as, highly industrialised labour that produced chronic disease amongst the labouring classes, alongside an inefficient, unpopular and inaccessible health care system that is incapable of dealing with those same patients. In order to improve health in America, the authors argue that a change is required in the conditions in the capitalist system in which people live and work, as well as a restructured health care system. Zusammenfassung Historical and political analysis of the impact of inequality and capitalism on the health of US workers. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Class! Power! Health and Healthcare 2. The Medical Miracle? 3. To Live and Die in 19th Century America: A Class Based Explanation of the Rise and Fall of Infectious Disease 4. Death in Our Times: The Exceptional Class Context for Chronic Disease in America 5. The Political Economy of US Healthcare: The Medical Industrial Complex 6. Three Easy Lessons Notes Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Robert Chernomas, Robert Hudson Chernomas, Chernomas Robert, Ian Hudson
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.02.2013
• EAN: 9780745332123
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3212-3
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: The Future of World Capitalism; The Future of World Capitalism
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Social welfare & social services, United States of America, USA, Social welfare and social services, Central / national / federal government policies, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care