Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series
The Corporate Transformation of Health Care: Part 2: Perspectives and Implications
1st Edition
By J. Warren Salmon
June 15, 1993
This new volume illuminates the growing corporate in-roads into the health care system and its probable consequences, especially for physicians and other practitioners. Its fourteen contributors examine both the delivery and supply functions in the health sector in America. Ambulatory care, ...
Why the United States Does Not Have a National Health Program
1st Edition
By Vicente Navarro
June 15, 1992
This book shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. They, and not the people, are those who determine the policies of the U.S. government. The volume shows how the United States could indeed provide ...
The Psychosocial Work Environment: Work Organization, Democratization, and Health : Essays in Memory of Bertil Gardell
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Johnson, Bertil Gardell, Gunn Johannson
June 15, 1991
Dedicated to the late Bertil Gardell, a Swedish Social Scientist, this text comprises of 18 essays that shares a common vision - the impact of work on the interconnected processes of stress and disease....
Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
1st Edition
By Meredith Minkler, Carroll Estes
June 15, 1990
This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the ...
The Corporate Transformation of Health Care: Part 1: Issues and Directions
1st Edition
By Warren Salmon
January 01, 1990
The author explores how the corporate transformation of hospitals, HMOs, and the insurance and pharmaceutical industries has resulted in reduction in services, dangerous cost cutting, poor regulation, and corrupt research. He sheds light on the political lobbying and media manipulation that keeps ...
Readings in the Political Economy of Aging
1st Edition
By Meredith Minkler, Carroll Estes
June 15, 1984
Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older....
An International Perspective: An International Perspective
1st Edition
By Vicente Navarro, Daniel Berman
June 15, 1983
While the health effects of many aspects of life, from diet to marital status, have been extensively explored, little study has been made of the health effects of work. Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers, the role of unions in worker protection, and occupational health in both developed and...
Imperialism, Health and Medicine
1st Edition
By Vicente Navarro
June 15, 1981
Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World....
Organization of Health Workers and Labor Conflict
1st Edition
By Samuel Wolfe
June 15, 1978
Offers insights into such contemporary issues as health workers' unions, labor conflicts in health care facilities, and underlying class and class related sex and ethnic conflicts that beset the health sector....