ABSTRACT
A collection of papers that challenge the conventional analyses of the problems facing health, medicine and medical care in Western societies in general, and North America in particular.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
The Definition of Health and Medicine
chapter 2|21 pages
The Industrialization of Fetishism or the Fetishism of Industrialization
A Critique of Ivan Illich
part 2|1 pages
The Political Economy of Health Care
chapter 6|29 pages
The Political Economy of Medical Care
An Explanation of the Composition, Nature, and Functions of the Present Health Sector of the United States
part 3|1 pages
The Political Sociology of Gender and Functions
part 4|1 pages
The Political Sociology of The State Intervention
