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Print Price: $27.50

Format:
Paperback
264 pp.
14 boxed inserts, and 7 tables or figures, 6" x 9"

ISBN-13:
9780195438291

Publication date:
April 2010

Imprint: OUP Canada


Wasting Away

The Undermining of Canadian Health Care, Second Edition

Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong

Series : The Wynford Project

Pat Armstrong is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.

Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients). The concluding chapter sums up the winners and losers in this system. A new Introduction by the authors thoroughly updates the subject.

Readership : Sociology of health care, at the university level, in sociology departments; public and social policy courses, at the university level, in sociology and social work departments; as well as courses for social workers, nurses, and health care providers, at the university and college level.

Introduction to the Wynford Edition
1. The Wasting Away of Care
2. From Cuts and Chemicals to Carrots and Condoms: The Development of Canadian Health Care
3. Who Provides: The Institutions
4. Who Provides: The People
5. Who Pays
6. Who Decides
7. Who Wins and Who Loses
Recommended Readings
Bibliography
Index

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Pat Armstrong received her PhD and MA from Carleton University . She is currently a full professor on faculty at York University's Sociology Department.

Hugh Armstrong earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Montreal and his MA from Carleton University. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton.

Unhealthy Times - Edited by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong and David Coburn
Health, Illness, and Medicine in Canada - Dr. Juanne Nancarrow Clarke

Special Features

  • Thoroughly updated Introduction
  • Highly respected authors who are leaders in this field
  • Content is analytically broken down into accessible and useful units