Robert Chernomas

To Live and Die in America

Class, Power, Health and Healthcare

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Reviled as one of the worst healthcare providers in the world, the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world, whilst paradoxically spending significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation. Economists Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory phenomenon as the product of the unique brand of capitalism that has developed in the US. It is this particular form of capitalism that analogously created social and economic conditions that influence health, such as, highly industrialised labour that produced chronic disease amongst the labouring classes, alongside a… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Hudson, Ian

ISBN: 978-0-7453-3212-3
EAN: 9780745332123
Produktnummer: 13449001
Verlag: Pluto Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.4 cm 336 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 336

Über den Autor

Robert Chernomas is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is co-author (with Ian Hudson) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013). Ian Hudson is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective (University of Toronto Press, 2016) and To Live and Die in America: Class, Class, Power Health and Health Care (Pluto Press, 2013).