The Second Sickness

Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

By: Howard Waitzkin

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Paperback | 9 February 2000 | Edition Number 2

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Since the appearance of Waitzkin's The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. Waitzkin's earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the "black box" of medical decision making. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and other economic and social forces influence medical practice today.

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Makes good reading for anyone interested in health policy. . . . Waitzkin's warnings about the limits of health reform are thought-provoking.--The New Physician

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies Economics Medicine Medicine in General Health Systems & Services Medical Administration & Management Public Health & Preventive Medicine Family & Health Home Nursing & Caring

Sociology & Anthropology

List of Figures and Tables	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Preface to the First Edition and Acknowledgments	p. xv
Medicine, Social Structure, and Social Pathology
Health Care, Social Contradictions, and the Dilemmas of Reform	p. 3
Social Structures of Medical Oppression	p. 37
The Social Origins of Illness: A Neglected History	p. 55
Problems in Contemporary Health Care
Technology, Health Costs, and the Structure of Private Profit	p. 77
Social Medicine and the Community	p. 97
The Micropolitics of the Doctor-Patient Relationship	p. 119
Policy, Practice, and Social Change
Medicine and Social Change: Lessons from Chile and Cuba	p. 165
Conclusion: Health Praxis, Reform, and Political Struggle	p. 189
Notes	p. 209
Selected Bibliography	p. 227
Index	p. 233
About the Author	p. 238
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