Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare, Paperba...

by Primrose, David (EDT); Loeppky, Rodney D. (EDT); Chang, Robin (ED

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Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare, Paperback by Primrose, David (EDT); Loeppky, Rodney D. (EDT); Chang, Robin (EDT), ISBN 1032650672, ISBN-13 9781032650678, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes. Instead, the capacity of the human body to reach its full potential and the ability of society to prevent disease and cure illness are demonstrated to be shaped by a broader array of political economic processes. The material conditions in which societies produce, distribute, exchange, consume, and reproduce – and the operation of power relations therein – influence all elements of human health: from food consumption and workplace safety, to inequality, healthcare and housing, and even the biophysical conditions in which humans live. This volume explores these concerns across five sections. First, it introduces and critically engages with a variety of established and cutting-edge theoretical perspectives in political economy to conceptualise health and healthcare – from neoclassical and behavioural economics, to Marxist and feminist approaches. The next two sections extend these insights to evaluate the neoliberalisation

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