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A collection of papers that challenge the conventional analyses of the problems facing health, medicine and medical care in Western societies in general, and North America in particular.

In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, this title explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women.

Provides a background to occupational stress, and traces the early work of Hans Selye and the development of bio-physiological, psychological and then sociological models of stress. This book also reports on a study of stress and ill-health in a large manufacturing organisation in Australia.

Provides a theoretical and empirical approach to investigating the nature of emerging OSH (Occupational Health and Safety) epidemics across the industrialized world. This book deals with exposure to a particular OSH hazard and examines the epidemic nature of the resulting ill-health or injury outcome.

Explores the economists debate over the relative costs of the two health care systems. This work incorporates surveys and debate on the US and Canadian health care systems in terms of satisfaction, interest, and willingness to accept either the US market-driven system or the Canadian single-payer system.

To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "International Journal of Health Services" between 1990 and 2000.

Shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. This volume shows how the United States could indeed provide comprehensive and universal health benefits coverage to the majority of the US population at lower costs than the available health care nonsystem.

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

Offers insights into such contemporary issues as health workers' unions, labor conflicts in health care facilities, and underlying class and class related sex and ethnic conflicts that beset the health sector.

Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.

Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers, the role of unions in worker protection, and occupational health in both developed and developing countries, this collection of articles demonstrates the negative impact that neglect of citizens' working lives has on pubic health.

Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.

In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, this title explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women.

Suggests a different perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society, based upon the distinction and integration of two fields: the frontier bioethics, which examines the development of biomedicine; and the bioethics of everyday life, which concerns people from around the world.

Dedicated to the late Bertil Gardell, a Swedish Social Scientist, this text comprises of 18 essays that shares a common vision - the impact of work on the interconnected processes of stress and disease.

To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "International Journal of Health Services" between 1990 and 2000.

Says that the federal National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) have betrayed us. This book alleges that these institutions have spent tens of billions of taxpayer primarily targeting silver-bullet cures, strategies that have largely failed, while virtually ignoring strategies for preventing cancer in the first place.

Beginning in the 1970s large corporations collectively began an unprecedented involvement in health policy and planning on the local and national levels. This is a twenty year comprehensive overview, dissecting this phenomenon. It raises critical questions of this for-profit invasion of health care.

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

Includes articles that question each of the tenets of neoliberal doctrine, showing how the policies guided by this ideology have adversely affected human development in the countries where they have been implemented. This book assembles a series of articles that challenge this ideology.

Following in the footsteps of "The Political Economy of Social Inequalities", this work describes and explains the health inequalities across social class, race, and gender, as well as neighborhood, city, region, country, and continent. It also represents the fields of public health, population health, epidemiology, economics, and sociology.