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Author:   Peggy Watson (University of Cambridge, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9780415691086

ISBN 10:   0415691087
Pages:   214
Publication Date:   13 August 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction Peggy Watson Chapter 1. Producing Public Opinion: How the Insurance Industry Shaped US Health Care Wendell Potter Chapter 2. The Break-up of the NHS: Implications for Information Systems Allyson Pollock and David Price Chapter 3. Rethinking Problems Surrounding Access to Care: The Moral Economies Shaping Health Care Work Forces in Russia and the U.S. Michele Rivkin-Fish Chapter 4: Human Oriented? Angels And Monsters in China’s Healthcare Reform Mei Zhan Chapter 5: We Are All In This Together - European Policies And Health Systems Change Meri Koivusalo Chapter 6: Catastrophic Citizenship and Discourses of Disguise: Aspects of Health Care Change in Poland Peggy Watson Chapter 7: The Making of Health Care Policy in Contemporary Hungary Terry Cox and Sandor Gallai Chapter 8: Community Health Services in Urban China: A Geographical Case Study of Access to Care Yu Wang, Tanghong Jia, Jinghui Zhang, Yunli Zhang, Wen Li and Robert Haining Chapter 9: ‘Health Care and Change’: Popular Protest and Building Alternative Visions of Health Systems at the End of Empire Howard Waitzkin and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar

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'Compelling and thought-provoking' - Significance 'An excellent collection of rigorous and thought-provoking papers written by some of the leading experts and presented in a highly accessible format. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in many fields, including public health.' - Critical Public Health 'This is a valuable and well-chosen collection of articles which illustrates the global nature of developments in health care.' - London Progressive Journal

'Compelling and thought-provoking' - Significance 'An excellent collection of rigorous and thought-provoking papers written by some of the leading experts and presented in a highly accessible format. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in many fields, including public health.' - Critical Public Health 'This is a valuable and well-chosen collection of articles which illustrates the global nature of developments in health care.' - London Progressive Journal

'Compelling and thought-provoking' - Significance 'An excellent collection of rigorous and thought-provoking papers written by some of the leading experts and presented in a highly accessible format. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in many fields, including public health.' - Critical Public Health `This is a valuable and well-chosen collection of articles which illustrates the global nature of developments in health care.' - London Progressive Journal

Author Information

Peggy Watson is at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.

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