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Socialist Register 2010, Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism.
Health care today is the object of struggle between commercial forces seeking to make it a field of capital accumulation, and popular forces fighting to keep it -- or make it -- a public service with equal access for all. This volume focuses on the historical, economic, social and political determinants of health under capitalism, addressing:
• The political and accumulation strategies of ‘big pharma’
• The global food industry’s production of hunger and obesity
• Capitalism and mental illness
• Health care as TV soap opera
The forces at work in a broad range of national health care systems are examined to explain:
• The limitations of the Obama administration’s plans for ending the scandal of the US health system
• How Europe’s public healthcare systems are being converted into commodified markets
• Workplace struggles for control in Canada’s publicly-funded healthcare system
• Systemic gender discrimination in the health systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
• How the Gates Fund and other international agencies have undermined the WHO’s aim of ‘health for all’
• How domestic class configurations in a country like India have reinforced this
The volume also examines:
• Cuba’s egalitarian health policies at home and abroad
• China’s dramatic shift away from universal basic healthcare, and its recent recommitment to this
• How we can learn from HIV/AIDS mobilizations to build a comprehensive public health movement
The volume demonstrates that the nature of health care will be determined by the outcome of the fundamental conflict between commodification and solidarity. The full table of contents and a link to download the preface for SR 2010 are accessible at the bottom of this page.
Order a print copy now here or check out our online subscription options to access the complete digital archive of over 700 essays published since 1964 by clicking here.
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Check out the review of Socialist Register 2010 in Red Pepper and download the review of Socialist Register 2007 in a recent issue of Economic & Political Weekly here. |
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Video Online of SR Event on the Crisis |
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Video of the SR event, "China, Japan and the US: Together in Crisis?", featuring contributors to the next volume, Johanna Brenner, Sam Gindin, Ho-fung Hung and R. Taggart Murphy, was recorded February 5 and is now available online at the Socialist Project website here. |
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Audio Recordings of SR panels at HM 2009 |
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Download audio recordings of sessions of the Historical Materialism 2009 conference, including the session on SR 2010 with Colin Leys, Julian Tudor Hart, Rob Albritton and Meri Koivusalo, and another with Greg Albo speaking. Find them here. |
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An Interview with Colin Leys by Greg Albo on SR 2010 |
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Italian publication of the Socialist Register |
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Check out the Italian translation of a collection of Socialist Register essays from the 2000s. Download the cover here. |
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Vol 46: Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms
ISSN: 0081-0606