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Price: $49.95

Format:
Paperback 264 pp.
20 tables and graphs, 6" x 9"

ISBN-10:
0195415094

ISBN-13:
9780195415094

Copyright Year:
2001

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Unhealthy Times

Political Economy of Health and Health Care in Canada

Edited by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong and David Coburn

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.

Readership : The text is appropriate for courses in sociology of health care at the university level. This new book will serve as a supplement in the sociology of health and health care (and medicine) in Canada. It might also serve in a secondary market: both public and social policy courses at the university level, in both sociology and social work.

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

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Pat Armstrong is in the Department of Sociology, York University. Hugh Armstrong is in the Department of Social Work, Carleton University. David Coburn is in the Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto.

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Special Features

  • This unique, 10 chapter reader brings together some of the enormous amount of research being undertaken in health and health care, within a broadly defined political economy framework
  • The book, with a number of outstanding contributors to this field, is divided into three parts: Locating Health Care, with essays on home care, globalization, and a comparasion of our system with the British system; 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
  • The Armstong's are quite well known and well respected in the field. Hugh Armstrong is at the School of Social Work at Carleton University and Pat is at Carleton's Department of Canadian studies as well as being a member of York University's sociology department. David Coburn is at Public Health Sciences at University of Toronto.