To Live and Die in America: Class, Power, Health and Health Care - Couverture rigide

Chernomas, Robert; Hudson, Ian

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 074533217X ISBN 13 : 9780745332178

Editeur : Pluto Press, 2013

Synopsis

To Live and Die in America details how the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world and at the same time spends significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation.

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 created both the social and economic conditions that largely influence health outcomes and the inefficient, unpopular and inaccessible health care system that is incapable of dealing with them.

The authors argue that improving health in America requires a change in the conditions in which people live and work as well as a restructured health care system.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Robert Chernomas is professor of economics at the University of Manitoba and coauthor of Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics, The Gatekeeper: Sixty Years of Economics according to the "New York Times", and To Live and Die in America: Class, Power, Health, and Health Care.

Ian Hudson is professor of economics at the University of Manitoba and coauthor of Economics in the Twenty-first Century: A Critical Perspective

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pluto Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 074533217X
• ISBN 13: 9780745332178
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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• Personne responsable: non disponible