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Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalismon to its impact on the most important area of human life: health. All the elements of public health, from a balanced diet to decent housing, job secu

rity and job satisfaction are crucial in determining how well and how long people live. This is partly a matter of giving the human body what it needs Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

to reach its full physical potential, but also a matter of preventing disease and, to a lesser extent, a matter of curing illnesses. The turn that ca

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

pitalism has taken in recent decades has, in both these respects, been replete with morbid symptoms - the title of this volume, the Register's 46th, o

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalismrk in the political economy of health begun in the 1970s by pioneel's such as Lesley Doyal, Vicente Navarro and Julian Tudor Hart has been too little

followed up by others, at least in the English-speaking world. This is all the more remarkable, given the size and scope of the global health industry Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

and its growing centrality as arena of capital accumulation. Our goal in preparing this volume was to help develop the historical materialist analysi

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

s of health under capitalism, focusing on the economic, social and political determinants of health in the neoliberal era; and on health care as an ob

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalismto reduce the current gross inequalities of access. It is crucial for the Left today to address, in particular, the marketisation of public health ser

vices, and the way the pharmaceutical, insurance, medical technology and healthcare corporations push to make health care everywhere into a field of c Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

apital accumulation and expand the consumption of medical commodities - services as well as goods. Many of the morbid symptoms flow directly from this

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

, including the corporate control of medical research and training, the misuse of scientific data for commercial gain, the generation and mistreatment

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalismIn most societies today health and health care are rarely out of the news: the spectre of new epidemics, or the return of old ones; the food industry’

s production of both obesity and hunger; the emergence of‘superbugs’; lapses in hospital care; breakthroughs in medical research or surgical technique Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

s; new ‘wonder drugs'; and. of course, ever-present hand-wringing about 'runaway' healthcare costs. It is in the rich capitalist countries that resour

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

ces exist for increasingly sophisticated and costly biomedical research and medical technology; and as the range of medical knowledge increases, so do

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism also have healthcare systems funded by general taxes or social insurance which at least in principle treat everyone alike, without reference to abili

ty to pay. This involves a transfer OÍ' income from rich to poor (who have worse health) and makes public hospitals and clinics some of the few places Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

in these classbased societies where there is relatively little class distinction - no separate ‘business’ and ‘economy’ cabins. But this also helps e

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

xplain why there is capitalist and state support in these countries for the drive by the global private healthcare industry to get access to the rich

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalismices to be handed over to private providers who will cut costs through the efficiencies allegedly produced by competition. No analysis of the relation

ship between health care and capitalism can avoid a heavy focus on the affluent ‘north', where the interplay of these forces has so far been heavily c Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

oncentrated, but the dynamics of this are played out world-wide, with profound effects, as many of the essays in this volume clearly demonstrate.rhe c

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

urrent global economic crisis brings into sharp relief the morbid symptoms associated with health and health care under capitalism today, rhe crisis w

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalismmerican state’s attempts to cope with the crisis. It was in the US that a market-based healthcare system persisted throughout the post-war era. while

other slates — reflecting a different balance of class forces - moved away from it. What has always been ar stake here is a profound class issue, rhe Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

UAW's Walter Reuther once explained why General Motors refused to support the campaign for a national health insurance scheme which would have lifted

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

the burden of healthcare costs from the company: ‘There's something more important to them than their own self-interest'. That ‘something’ was collect

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalismompany-based insurance, and the larger project American capitalists shared in spreading market relations to every facet of life, if possible in every

part of the world. With the increasing achievement of this in the neoliberal era we have seen the effective Americanisation of other healthcare system Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

s, not only through the relentless penetration of public health care by corporate capital, but also through state-led marketisalion. In the poorer cap

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

italist countries of the world, with the most notable exception of Cuba, this has combined with the exacerbation of global inequality to ensure that t

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalismitalism must be centred on the fundamental contradiction involved: health and health care arc use values par excellence, of limited interest to capita

l unless it can convert them into exchange values; where publicly-funded health services were secured, the productivity of a healthy workforce was alw Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

ays a key element in capital’s acquiescence. Where publicly-funded health care becomes seen as a problem for accumulation, the use values of health an

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

d health care must be obscured and distorted. Much public discussion of and official policy towards health and health care today has this aim. The bas

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism no means enough. What is essential, especially for building effective forces of opposition capable of organising on this terrain, is to make the fund

amental contradiction of health under capitalism the pivotal issue of a revitalised socialist strategy.One of the most rewarding aspects of editing th Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

is volume was the range of new contacts we made with experts in the field, and their enthusiasm for what they, like US, saw as an important project. W

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

e are especially grateful to Roddy Loeppky for his help in planning the volume. We are also grateful to all the other contributors: though we must add

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism for their editorial work, to 1.Ollis McKay for his arresting cover design, and to our publisher Tony Zurbrugg for his encouragement and support.With

this volume, two important transitions occur in the editing and publishing of the Register. After 12 years as co-editor, Colin Leys is stepping down t Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

o join Alfredo Saad Filho as an associate editor; Greg Albo and Vivek Clubber are joining Leo Panitch as co-editors. This represents a first step in h

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

anding on the direction of the Register, as it approaches its 50th year of publication, to a younger generation. The commitment to the future of4 SOCI

PREFACENeoliberal globalisation, a predominant theme of the Socialist Register over the past 15 years, is brought into focus in this volume in relatio

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism Beynon, Varda Burstyn, David Coates, Terry Eagleton, Steve Jefferys and Ellen Meiksins Wood for the many invaluable contributions they have made to t

he Register over the years, and are confident that the Register will continue to be able to rely on their help when needed, including, we hope, as aut Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

hors of future essays. We are delighted that Bashir Abu-Manneh, Johanna Brenner, David Haney, Christoph Hermann, Nancy Holmstrom, Martijn Konings and

Morbid symptoms health under capitalism

Charles Post have agreed to join the editorial collective, and look forward to productive collaboration with them.The second transition, also reflecti

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