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The Second Sickness

Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

Howard Waitzkin (Author)
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The Second Sickness

Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

Howard Waitzkin (Author)
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Since the appearance of WaitzkinOs The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. WaitzkinOs earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the Oblack boxO of medical decisionmaking. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 2 Preface to the Second Edition
Chapter 3 Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgments
Part 4 I: Medicine, Social Structure, and Social Pathology
Chapter 5 1. Health Care, Social Contradictions, and the Dilemmas of Reform
Chapter 6 2. Social Structures of Medical Oppression
Chapter 7 3. The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected History
Part 8 II: Problems in Contemporary Health Care
Chapter 9 4. Technology, Health Costs, and the Structure of Private Profit
Chapter 10 5. Social Medicine and the Community
Chapter 11 6. The Micropolitics of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
Part 12 III: Policy, Practice, and Social Change
Chapter 13 7. Medicine and Social Change: Lessons from Chile and Cuba
Chapter 14 8. Conclusion: Health Praxis, Reform, and Political Struggle
Chapter 15 Notes
Chapter 16 Selected Bibliography
Chapter 17 Index
Chapter 18 About the Author

Product details

Published Feb 09 2000
Format Paperback
Edition 2nd
Extent 256
ISBN 9780847698875
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

HW
Author

Howard Waitzkin

Reviews

  • Superb. . . . Stands out like a beacon amidst confusion. . . . The richness of detail and evidence adduced to support the arguments are exceptional.

    Social Science & Medicine

  • Makes good reading for anyone interested in health policy. . . . Waitzkin's warnings about the limits of health reform are thought-provoking.

    The New Physician

  • This is not a political book but one of political action. The healing profession has to face not only sickness in the individual but sickness in society; all too often, the second sickness is the root of the first. This book will spark controversy. . . .

    The New England Journal Of Medicine

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