On Medicine as Colonialism
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On Medicine as Colonialism

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

On Medicine as Colonialism

About this book

In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Focusing on how health care profiteers co-opt the state's regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from communities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become tools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes impossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.

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Information

Publisher
PM Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9781629639901
eBook ISBN
9781629639949
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic Policy
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword Christopher Koller
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: Two Stories and a Definition
  8. Chapter One: Medicine and Colonialism
  9. Chapter Two: Hospitals
  10. Chapter Three: Pharma and Pharmaceutical Retailers
  11. Chapter Four: Specialists, Surgicenters, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and Tests
  12. Chapter Five: Administrators, Consultants, Lawyers, and Doctors
  13. Chapter Six: Primary Care
  14. Chapter Seven: Insurance Companies
  15. Chapter Eight: Research
  16. Chapter Nine: Medical Colonialism as, Well, Colonialism Itself
  17. Chapter Ten: COVID-19
  18. Chapter Eleven: Final Thoughts, Summary and Conclusions, and a Little about How to Fix This Mess
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. About the Author