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A Marxist Analysis of the Health Care Systems of Advanced Capitalist Societies

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The Relevance of Social Science for Medicine

Part of the book series: Culture, Illness, and Healing ((CIHE,volume 1))

Abstract

The Marxist viewpoint questions whether major improvements in the health system can occur without fundamental changes in the broad social order. One thrust of the field — an assumption also accepted by many non-Marxists — is that the problems of the health system reflect the problems of our larger society and cannot be separated from those problems.

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  2. School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

    Arthur Kleinman

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Waitzkin, H. (1981). A Marxist Analysis of the Health Care Systems of Advanced Capitalist Societies. In: Eisenberg, L., Kleinman, A. (eds) The Relevance of Social Science for Medicine. Culture, Illness, and Healing, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8379-3_15

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