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Unhealthy Times: Political Economy of Health and Health Care in Canada

Edited by PAT ARMSTRONG, Department of Sociology, York University, HUGH
ARMSTRONG, Department of Social Work, Carleton University, and DAVID
COBURN, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto

Unhealthy Times brings together some of the enormous amount of research
being undertaken within a broadly defined political economy framework about
health and health care. Th book is divided into three sections: Locating
Health Care, with essays on homecare, globalization, and a comparison of
the Canadian system with the British National Health Service; Locating
Evidence, with essays on research in health services, women, and the
pharmaceutical industry; and Locating Risk, with essays on work,
environmental contamination, and poverty.

$ 24.95 0195415094 Paper Mar 2001 264 pp., 20 tables and graphs

Introduction: The Political Economy of Health and Care
Part One: Locating Health Care
1.From Medicare to Home Care: Globalization, State Retrenchment and the
Privatization of Canada's Health Care System - Paul Williams, Raisa Deber, Pat
Baranek, and Alina Gildiner, all at University of Toronto
2.Pharamaceuticals: Politics and Policy - Joel Lexchin, University of Toronto
3.Health, Health Care, and Neoliberalism - David Coburn
4.The British National Health Service in the Face of Neo-Liberalism - Colin
Leys, Queens University Part Two: Locating Evidence
5.Academic Capitalism and the Hidden Curriculum in the Pharmaceutical
Sciences - Linda Muzzin, University of Toronto
6.Evidence-Based Health Care Reform: Women's Issues - Pat Armstrong
7.Towards a Sociology of Knowledge in Health Care: Exploring Health
Services Research as Active Discourse - Eric Mykhalovskiy, University of
Toronto
Part Three: Locating Risk
8.A Political Ecology of Environmental Containation? - John Eyles, McMaster
Institute of Environment and Health
9.Work and Health in the Global Economy - Peggy McDonough, York University
10.From Increasing Poverty to Societal Disintegration: The Effects of
Economic Inequality on the Health of Individuals and Communities - Dennis
Raphael,
University of Toronto
Contributors
Index
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