{"product_id":"to-live-and-die-in-america-class-power-health-and-healthcare-9780745332123","title":"To Live and Die in America: Class, Power, Health and Healthcare","description":"Reviled as one of the worst healthcare providers in the world, the United States has among the worst indicators of health in the industrialised world, whilst paradoxically spending significantly more on its health care system than any other industrial nation. Economists Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson explain this contradictory phenomenon as the product of the unique brand of capitalism that has developed in the US. It is this particular form of capitalism that analogously created social and economic conditions that influence health, such as, highly industrialised labour that produced chronic disease amongst the labouring classes, alongside an inefficient, unpopular and inaccessible health care system that is incapable of dealing with those same patients. In order to improve health in America, the authors argue that a change is required in the conditions in the capitalist system in which people live and work, as well as a restructured health care system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Chernomas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pluto Press (UK)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/06\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.46h x 5.30w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780745332123\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Chernomas\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He has been a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and is on the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eInternational Journal of Health Services\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Manitoba, Canada. He is the co-author (with Robert Chernomas) of \u003ci\u003eThe Gatekeeper: Sixty Years of Economics According to the New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eSocial Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics\u003c\/i\u003e (2008), and (with Mark Hudson and Mara Fridell) \u003ci\u003eFair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40119991795827,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_fade4a16-2e90-472a-a729-9521c9dc7407.jpg?v=1653661454","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/to-live-and-die-in-america-class-power-health-and-healthcare-9780745332123","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}