Socialist Register 2010: Health Under Capitalism Morbid Symptoms

• Leo Panitch
• Fernwood Publishing; Nov, 2009
• 9781552663288

Health care rights are fought over between commercial forces that seek to make health into a commodity (for those who can pay), and popular forces that seek to reduce gross inequalities and try to make (or keep) health as a public service. These essays analyze the global health industry: the corporations that sell pharmaceuticals and insurance and push to expand the consumption of goods and services, making health care everywhere a field of capi-tal accumulation.