Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms

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.

Contents

• Colin Leys, “Health, Health Care, and Capitalism”
• Hans Ulrich Deppe, “The Nature of Health Care: Commodification versus Solidarity”
• David Coburn, “Inequality and Health”
• Rodney Loeppky, “Certain Wealth: Accumulation in the Health Industry”
• Kalman Applbaum, “Marketing Global Health Care: The Practices of Big Pharma”
• Marie Gottschalk, “US Health Reform and the Stockholm Syndrome”
• Christoph Hermann, “The Marketization of Health Care in Europe”
• Pat and Hugh Armstrong, “Contradictions at Work: Struggles for Control in Canadian Health Care”
• Paula Tibandebage & Maureen Mackintosh, “Maternal Mortality in Africa: A Gendered Lens on Health System Failure”
• Robert Albritton, “Between Obesity and Hunger: The Capitalist Food Industry”
• Lesley Henderson, “Medical TV Dramas: Health Care as Soap Opera”
• Julie Feinsilver, “Cuban Health Politics at Home and Abroad”
• Shaoguang Wang, “China’s Double Movement in Health Care”
• Mohan Rao, “ ‘Health for All’ and Neoliberal Globalization: An Indian Rope Trick”
• Meri Koivusalo, “The Shaping of Global Health Policy”
• Sanjay Basu, “Building a Comprehensive Public Health Movement: Learning from HIV/AIDS Mobilizations”
• Julian Tudor Hart, “Mental Health in a Sick Society: What Are People For?”

Leo Panitch is professor of political science at York University, Toronto, and author of Renewing Socialism: Democracy, Strategy, and Imagination. Colin Leys is emeritus professor at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, and author of Market-Driven Politics.