New from Oxford University Press Canada 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 Aksi visit the following websites for information about Seniors Participatory and Community Quality of Life Projects! Free Reports Also. http://www.utoronto.ca/qol http://www.utoronto.ca/seniors