Medicine Under Capitalism

Book : Medicine Under Capitalism

Author : * Vicente Navarro

Language : English

Library : Social Phsician

Publish Place : New York

Publish Date : January 1976

Publisher : PRODIST Neale Watson Academic Publications,Inc.

Book Number : 1906

INDEX

Contents Introduction
The Nature of Medicine Under Capitalism
Part I: The Underdevelopment of Health in Capitalist Societies
THE CAPITALIST UNDERDEVELOPED WORLD The Political and Economic Origins of the Underdevelopment of Health in Latin America
Allende's Chile: A Case Study in the Breaking with Underdevelopment
THE CAPITALIST DEVELOPED WORLD Health and Medicine in the Rural United States: Its Political and Economic Determinants
The Underdevelopment of Health of Working America: Causes, Consequences, and Possible Solutions
Part II: The Meaning of Health and Medicine
The Industrialization of Fetishism: A Critique of Ivan Illich
Part III: The Political Economy of Medical Care
An Explanation of the Composition, Nature, and Functions of the Present Health Sector of the United States The Labor Force: Women as Producers of Services in the Health Sector of the United States
Part IV: Class, Political Power and Health Care
Social Class, Political Power, and the State: Their Implications in Medicine
Acknowledgments