Leo Panitch, Colin Leys, "Morbid symptoms: Health under capitalism: Socialist Register 2010"
Vsa Verlag | 2009 | ISBN: 3899659961 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,3 MB




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From the Preface
Neoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Registerover the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume inrelation to
its impact on the most important area of human life: health. All theelements of public health, from a balanced diet to decent housing, jobsecurity and
job satisfaction are crucial in determining how well and how longpeople live. This is partly a matter of giving the human body what itneeds to
reach its full physical potential, but also a matter of preventingdisease and, to a lesser extent, a matter of curing illnesses. The turnthat capitalism has
taken in recent decades has, in both these respects, been replete withmorbid symptoms – the title of this volume, the Register’s 46th, onhealth under
capitalism.
A vast amount has been written about health, but very little from a systematically critical standpoint...