The Second Sickness: Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care
by Howard Waitzkin
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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.Tags
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Howard Waitzkin is Distinguished Professor at the University of New Mexico and a primary care practitioner in rural northern New Mexico. His work focuses on social conditions that lead to illness, unnecessary suffering, and early death. Dr. Waitzkin's books include The Second Sickness, The Politics of Medical Encounter and At the Front Lines of show more Medicine. show less
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- Sociology, Nonfiction, Economics, Politics and Government
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- 362.1 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Social Welfare People with physical illnesses
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- RA418 .W349 — Medicine Public aspects of medicine Public aspects of medicine Medicine and the state Medicine and society. Social medicine. Medical sociology
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