Health Advocacy, Inc.
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
978-0-7748-3384-4 (ISBN)
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Over the past several decades, a gradual reduction in state funding has pressured patient groups into forming private-sector partnerships, raising an important ethical question: do these alliances ultimately lead to policies that are counter to the public interest? Health activist, scholar, and cancer survivor Sharon Batt examines the issue by investigating Canada’s breast cancer movement from 1990 to 2010.
Health Advocacy, Inc. dissects the relationship between the companies that sell pharmaceuticals and the individuals who use them, drawing links between neoliberalism and corporate financing and the ensuing threat to the public health care system. Combining archival analysis, interviews with advocacy and industry representatives, and personal observation, Batt argues that the resulting power imbalance continues to challenge the groups’ ability to put patients’ interests ahead of those of the funders. A movement that once encouraged democratic participation in the development of health policy now eerily echoes the demands of the pharmaceutical industry. Batt’s thorough account of this shift defines the stakes of activism in public health today.
Sharon Batt is an independent scholar and adjunct professor in the Department of Bioethics at Dalhousie University and a research affiliate of the university’s Technoscience and Regulation Research Unit. A survivor of breast cancer, she cofounded Breast Cancer Action Québec in 1991. Batt was a founding editor of Canada’s first feminist magazine, the Edmonton-based Branching Out, and for six years was an editor for the Quebec consumer magazine Protect Yourself. Her documentary on cancer for CBC Radio’s Ideas won the Major Armstrong award; her book, Patient No More: The Politics of Breast Cancer, won the Laura Jamieson Award for feminist nonfiction.
Preface
Introduction: The Secret War among Patient Groups
Part 1: Canada’s Health Care System Transformed – Neoliberalism and the Erosion of the Welfare State
1 Canada’s Health Policy Landscape
2 Health Advocacy Organizations in Canada
Part 2: From Grassroots to Contestation to Partnership – The Breast Cancer Movement and Big Pharma
3 Beginnings of the Breast Cancer Movement
4 Advocacy Redefined
5 The Movement Fractures over Pharma Funding
6 Pharma Funding as the New Norm
7 Advocacy Groups and the Continuing Struggle over the Pharma-Funding Question
Conclusion: The Fight for Medicine’s Soul
Appendix: Organizations and Their Members
Notes
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 20.07.2017 |
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Verlagsort | Vancouver |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 720 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Krankheiten / Heilverfahren |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege | |
Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pharmazie | |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
Technik | |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7748-3384-X / 077483384X |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7748-3384-4 / 9780774833844 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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