Vicente Navarro

Health and Medical Care in the U.S. (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Analysis

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of papers that challenge the conventional analyses of the problems facing health, medicine and medical care in Western societies in general, and North America in particular.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 158
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351843973
• Artikelnr.: 56866005

Autorenporträt

Vicente Narraro

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
PART 1: The Definition of Health and Medicine
The Social Nature of the Definition of Health Sander Kelman Functionalism
and After? Theory and Developments in Social Science Applied to the Health
Field Ronald Frankenberg
The Industrialization of Fetishism or the Fetishism of
IndustrializationâEUR"A Critique of Ivan Illich Vicente Navarro
PART 2: The Political Economy of Health Care
Health Care in the United States: Who Pays? Thomas S. Bodenheimer
Capitalizing on Illness: The Health Insurance Industry Thomas Bodenheimer,
Steven Cummings, and Elizabeth Harding The Political Economy of Medical
CareâEUR"An Explanation of the Composition, Nature, and Functions of the
Present Health Sector of the United States
Vicente Navarro
PART 3: The Political Sociology of Gender and Functions
Women and Health Care: A Comparison of Theories Elizabeth Fee
PART 4: The Political Sociology of the State Intervention
On the Structural Constraints to State Intervention in Health Marc Renaud