Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism

by Colin Leys and Leo Panitch

Morbid Symptoms sees health as a major field of political economy, one that focuses on the struggle between commercial forces seeking to make it into a field of profit, and popular forces fighting to keep it--or make it--a public service with equal access for all.
Central to this volume is an analysis of the global health industry--the pharmaceutical, insurance, medical technology, and healthcare provider corporations. Essays by leading...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583672036
• ISBN13: 9781583672037
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"