Books in the Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series series

Covering such topics as on-the-job dangers, the role of unions in worker protection, and occupational health in both developed and developing countries, this collection of articles demonstrates the negative impact that neglect of citizens' working lives has on pubic health.

In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, this title explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women.

Provides a background to occupational stress, and traces the early work of Hans Selye and the development of bio-physiological, psychological and then sociological models of stress. This book also reports on a study of stress and ill-health in a large manufacturing organisation in Australia.

To advance the epidemiological analysis of social inequalities in health, and of the ways in which population distributions of disease, disability, and death reflect embodied expressions of social inequality, this volume draws on articles published in the "International Journal of Health Services" between 1990 and 2000.

Shows how the insurance industry and the medical industrial complex are the major influences in the health policy of the United States. This volume shows how the United States could indeed provide comprehensive and universal health benefits coverage to the majority of the US population at lower costs than the available health care nonsystem.

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

Includes articles which offer an alternative view of the political and economic causes of substandard health care in the underdeveloped societies of the Third World.

A collection of papers that challenge the conventional analyses of the problems facing health, medicine and medical care in Western societies in general, and North America in particular.

In the face of the long domination of medical care by men, this title explores from a variety of perspectives the twin issues of women in health care, and the health care of women.

Dedicated to the late Bertil Gardell, a Swedish Social Scientist, this text comprises of 18 essays that shares a common vision - the impact of work on the interconnected processes of stress and disease.

Says that the federal National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Cancer Society (ACS) have betrayed us. This book alleges that these institutions have spent tens of billions of taxpayer primarily targeting silver-bullet cures, strategies that have largely failed, while virtually ignoring strategies for preventing cancer in the first place.

Beginning in the 1970s large corporations collectively began an unprecedented involvement in health policy and planning on the local and national levels. This is a twenty year comprehensive overview, dissecting this phenomenon. It raises critical questions of this for-profit invasion of health care.

Includes articles that question each of the tenets of neoliberal doctrine, showing how the policies guided by this ideology have adversely affected human development in the countries where they have been implemented. This book assembles a series of articles that challenge this ideology.