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  • Rinky Dink Revolution

    by Howard Waitzkin ...
    This pamphlet tackles the question: how do we get from A to B, capitalism to post-capitalism? It is critical reading to understand why: Capitalist-oriented industrial agriculture and its destruction of habitat are the upstream causes that led to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as other past and future pandemics of devastating, emerging viral pathogens; COVID-19 may trigger a collapse of the global ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Second Sickness

    Contradictions of Capitalist Health Care

    by Howard Waitzkin ...
    Since the appearance of WaitzkinOs The Second Sickness, a landmark book of the 1980s, American medicine has been dramatically transformed. WaitzkinOs earlier edition used qualitative research to take readers inside the Oblack boxO of medical decisionmaking. This new, fully updated and expanded edition retains the earlier edition's vivid approach and adds timely analysis of how managed care and ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire

    by Howard Waitzkin ...
    The recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the global practice of health care changes that have often escaped the American news media. Although Western managed-care corporations previously had strengthened their influence abroad, now many countries are considering new approaches to health care for their citizens.The untold story of how corporations have influenced global health ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Rinky-Dink Revolution

    Moving Beyond Capitalism by Withholding Consent, Creative Constructions, and Creative Destructions

    by Howard Waitzkin, TBD ...
    Answering the question of how to get from A to B, capitalism to post-capitalism, is a task that we “audaciously” need to pursue now. This pamphlet is one among several others, intended to clarify our struggle 1) to bring down capitalism; and 2) to create a path toward eco-socialism.Those of us oppressed by capitalism engage in some peculiar forms of actions and inactions. In our actions, we take ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Medicine and the Coming Transformation

    by Howard Waitzkin, Alina Pérez, Matt Anderson ...
    Social medicine, starting two centuries ago, has shown that social conditions affect health and illness more than biology does, and social change affects the outcomes of health and illness more than health services do. Understanding and exposing sickness-generating structures in society helps us change them.This first book providing a critical introduction to social medicine sheds light on an ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Welfare for a Humane Future

    Moving Beyond the Welfare State of Racial Capitalism

    by David Matthews, Howard Waitzkin ...
    Welfare for a Humane Future by David Matthews and Howard Waitzkin critiques the capitalist welfare state, emphasizing its role in sustaining racial capitalism’s exploitative structures. The authors argue that welfare under capitalism reinforces racial and class divisions, as seen in historical policies like the New Deal, which excluded Black workers. They envision a post-capitalist welfare system ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Welfare for a Humane Future

    Moving Beyond the Welfare State of Racial Capitalism

    by David Matthews, Howard Waitzkin ...
    Welfare for people in need always contains profound contradictions. Under capitalism, the welfare state reinforces exploitation and discrimination, yet working people have fought for welfare, which protects against the worst excesses of capitalism. Given the important benefits that welfare can provide, we need to consider the components of a post-capitalist welfare system, one that actually meets ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Health Care Under the Knife

    Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health

    Edited by Howard Waitzkin ...
    Health care professionals, activists and scholars weigh in on how the U.S. can address the shortcomings of the "medical industrial complex" and extend affordable health care to all“I’ve still got my health so what do I care?” goes a lyric in an old Cole Porter song. Most of us, in fact, assume we can’t live full lives, or take on life’s challenges, without also assuming that we’re basically ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Comrades in Health

    U.S. Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home

    by Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Theodore M. Brown, Susan Gross Solomon, Walter J. Lear, Jane Pacht Brickman, H. Jack Geiger, Victor W. Sidel, Ruth Sidel, Bernard Lown0, Howard Waitzkin1, Paula Braveman2, Stephen Gloyd3, James Pfeiffer4, Wendy Johnson5, Mary Travis Bassett6, Michael Terry7, Laura Turiano8, Alicia Ely Yamin9, Seiji Yamada0, Lanny Smith1, Jennifer Kasper2, Timothy Holtz3, Razel Remen4, Brea Bondi-Boyd5, Vicente Navarro7 ...
    Series series Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
    Since the early twentieth century, politically engaged and socially committed U.S. health professionals have worked in solidarity with progressive movements around the world. Often with roots in social medicine, political activism, and international socialism, these doctors, nurses, and other health workers became comrades who joined forces with people struggling for social justice, equity, and ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Unhealthy Health Policy

    A Critical Anthropological Examination

    by Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, Francisco Armada, Hans A. Baer, Katherine Elaine Bliss, Philippe Bourgois, David Buchanan, Claudia Chaufan, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Alice Desclaux, Paul Farmer, Didier Fassin, Sarah Horton, Kristen M. Jacklin, Salmaan Keshavjee, Kaveh Khoshnoo, Cathy Hodge McCoid, Carles Muntaner, Joan E. Paluzzi, James Pfeiffer, Imrana Qadeer, Susan Shaw, Tom Stopka, Wei Teng, Graham A. Tobin, Fouzieyha Towghi, Nalini Visvanathan, William Wagner, Howard Waitzkin, Wayne Warry, Linda M. Whiteford, Cathleen Willging ...
    This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

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    Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

    by Silvia Federici ...
    Series series Kairos
    Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Re-enchanting the World

    Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

    by Silvia Federici, Peter Linebaugh ...
    Drawing on rich historical research, Silvia Federici maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the “new enclosures” at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection centers on women and reproductive work as ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD