Socialist Register

PROVISIONAL CONTENTS: 1. Colin Leys: The recommodification of health care in contemporary capitalism; 2. Roddy Loeppky: The capitalist health industry; 3. Pat & Hugh Armstrong: The health care proletariat; 4. Christoph Herman: The marketization of health care in Europe; 5. David Coburn: Inequality and ill-health 6. Vicente Navarro: The politics of research and the neutering of health policy; 7. Hans Ulrich Deppe The nature of health care and the impact of commodification; 8. Julian Tudor Hart: What are people for? Mental health in a sick society; 9. Marie Gottschalk: Is a public health care system possible in the USA?; 10. Mohan Rao: Whatever happened to primary care in India?; 11. Maureen Mackintosh: Health care in sub-Saharan Africa; 12. Julie Feinsilver: Cuban health care at home and abroad; 13. Meri Koivusalo: International organizations and capitalist health policies; 14. Wang Shaoguang: China's capitalist transition in health care; 15. Kalman Applbaum: Big pharma's medicalisation of life and learning; 16. Robert Albritton: Hunger and obesity: the global capitalist food industry; 17. Julian Ammirante: 'Inverse medicalization': the 'fitness' industry; 18. Sanjay Basu: A right to life? The lethal struggle over AIDS in Africa; 19. Thomas Seibert: Medical aid and resistance in the 'Global South'; 20. Lesley Henderson: Medical TV dramas and/or soap operas.