Issues in the Political Economy of Health Care

John B. McKinlay was Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Medicine at Boston University, USA.

Part 1: The Social Production of Health and Illness 1. Capitalism, Health and Illness 2. A Cultural Account of ‘health’: Control, Release, and the Social Body Part 2: Capital Interests and the Role of the State 3. The crisis of the International Capitalist Order and Its Implications on the Welfare State Vincente Navarro Part 3: Selected Issues 4. Organizing Medical Care for Profit 5. The Transnational Pharmaceutical Industry and The Health of the World’s People6. Physicians and their Sponsors: The New Medical Relations of Production Part 4: The Penetration of the Developing World By the Transnational Medical Industrial Complex 7. The Political Economy of Western Medicine in Third World Countries.