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Engels and the WHO Report

WebChapter 2 of SICK and SICKER: Essays on Class, Health and Health Care. With the headline, “Inequalities are Killing People on a Grand Scale,” the World Health …

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Assembly-Line Medicine

WebSkilled workers present a problem – they can work only so hard for so long. In the late 19th century, Frederick Winslow Taylor solved this problem by developing a …

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The US and Canada: Different Forms of Medical Rationing

WebThe basic difference between the Canadian and US medical systems is the proportion of government funding to private funding. In Canada, government pays about …

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Health Care or Damage Control

WebUnder capitalism, health is defined as the ability to work, and sickness is defined as the inability to work. Systems of medical damage control diagnose and treat …

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Healthy Profits, Sick People

WebI am an American and I had the best medical insurance money could buy, but I did not receive good medical care. I burst my appendix and miraculously survived with …

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Social Policy and Human Health

WebBook Review: Blane, Brunner & Wilkinson. (Eds), 1996, Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21 st Century. London: Routledge. Health …

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The Myth of Scarcity

WebThe Grapes of Wrath. The myth of scarcity is necessary to reconcile the obscenity of growing wealth alongside growing poverty. According to the World Health …

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Nurse to Nurse: A Conversation of Global Concern

WebThis conversation was originally published in the newsletter of International Health Workers for People Over Profit, March 29, 2009.. Eileen (RN – San Francisco, …

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How Inequality is Killing Us

WebResearchers calculated that reducing income inequality to the lowest level found in those areas would save as many lives as would be saved by eradicating heart …

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What Happened in Chile: An Analysis of the Health Sector Before, …

WebSee also Chapter 9. The Lessons of Chile, in Sick and Sicker: Essays on Class, Health and Health Care.. by Vicente Navarro¹. Dedication: To all those in Chile …

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Mental Illness or Social Sickness

WebBoth are true. Capitalism is a sick social arrangement that damages physical and mental health. And by expanding the definition of mental illness, more people can …

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The Fight for Medicare in Canada

WebThe Fight for Medicare in Canada. Chapter 6 of Sick and Sicker: Essays on Class Health and Health Care. The history of how Canadian medicare was won and …

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Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in …

WebBook Review: Samir Shaheen-Hussain (2020). Fighting for A Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada. Montreal: …

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My Body Is Not Your Capital-Producing Machine – Or Is It

WebCapitalism. There are three basic freedoms: freedom to say NO; freedom to move away; and freedom to change what does not work. Individual freedom requires …

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Mental Illness: A Disorder of Capitalism

WebMental Illness: A Disorder of Capitalism. Presentation, July 10, 2015, London, UK. Discusses how the concept of individual ‘mental illness’ diverts attention away from …

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The Fight to Save Ontario Hospitals

WebGood luck. My workplace just got the notice April 25/2010. All our SEIU Union jobs are being outsourced to agencies and guess what? The agency of choice is India.

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Class Conflict Over COVID

WebClass Conflict Over COVID. Over the 20th century, life expectancy rose and medical advances virtually eliminated deadly diseases such as smallpox, leprosy, and …

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Cops Criminalize Protest; Psychiatrists Medicalize It

WebPsychiatry is an ideology of dogma in which the practioners seek to contain what they fear in themselves by exorcizing it in their patients. Of all the years I’ve …

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