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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 228 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010036757 Type of material Book Personal name Waitzkin, Howard. Main title Medicine and public health at the end of empire / Howard Waitzkin. Published/Created Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, c2011. Description xii, 228 p.; 24 cm. ISBN 9781594519505 (hc: alk. paper) 9781594519512 (pb: alk. paper) LC classification RA418. W345 2011 Contents Empire's historical health component--Illness-generating conditions of capitalism and empire--The international market for health products and services--Paths of resistance to empire in public health and health services--Neoliberalism and health (with Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar)--International trade agreements, medicine, and public health--Macroeconomics and health--The exportation of managed care--Corporations, international financial institutions, and health services--The "common sense" of health reform--Stakeholders' constructions of global trade, public health, and health services--Militarism, empire, and health--Health and praxis: social medicine in Latin America--Resistance and building an alternative future (with Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar). Subjects Social medicine. Imperialism--Health aspects. Public health--Political aspects. Public Health--history. Public Health--trends. Health Services Accessibility--history. Health Services Accessibility--trends. History, 20th Century. History, 21st Century. Notes Includes bibliographical references. Dewey class no. 362.1 Other system no. (DNLM)101539187