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In Health Matters, contributors from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary traditions address multiple dimensions of health care, such as nursing, midwifery, home care, pharmaceuticals, medical education, and palliative care. Through their explorations, the book poses questions about the role that the forms of expertise associated with evidence-based health care play in shaping how we understand and organize health services. Authors critique instrumental, managerial ways of knowing health care and focus on how such ways of knowing limit our understandings of and responses to health care problems and are linked with the growing commodification, individualization, and privatization of Canadian health services. Working with analytic perspectives such as feminism, Marxist political economy, critical ethnography, science and technology studies, governmentality studies, and institutional ethnography, the volume demonstrates how critical social science perspectives contribute alternative perspectives about what counts as health care problems and how to best to address them.

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"""Offering a refreshing analytic awareness of the constitutive 'neoliberal' effect on health care, Health Matters not only challenges the status quo, but is inspirational of social change; it reveals the systemic problems. Health Matters focuses on demonstrating how critical health research fills specific lacunae in contemporary health knowledge, thereby offering new and needed insights and inspiration for efforts to change the organization of Canadian health care, making it a serious advance in state-of-the-art research.""--Marie Campbell, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria ""Health Matters offers a number of timely, interesting, and useful critiques of trends in clinical practice, research, and management practices.""--William Magee, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto"

""Offering a refreshing analytic awareness of the constitutive 'neoliberal' effect on health care, Health Matters not only challenges the status quo, but is inspirational of social change; it reveals the systemic problems. Health Matters focuses on demonstrating how critical health research fills specific lacunae in contemporary health knowledge, thereby offering new and needed insights and inspiration for efforts to change the organization of Canadian health care, making it a serious advance in state-of-the-art research."" --Marie Campbell, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria "" Health Matters offers a number of timely, interesting, and useful critiques of trends in clinical practice, research, and management practices."" --William Magee, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto

"""Offering a refreshing analytic awareness of the constitutive 'neoliberal' effect on health care, Health Matters not only challenges the status quo, but is inspirational of social change; it reveals the systemic problems. Health Matters focuses on demonstrating how critical health research fills specific lacunae in contemporary health knowledge, thereby offering new and needed insights and inspiration for efforts to change the organization of Canadian health care, making it a serious advance in state-of-the-art research."" --Marie Campbell, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria "" Health Matters offers a number of timely, interesting, and useful critiques of trends in clinical practice, research, and management practices."" --William Magee, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto"

Health Matters offers a number of timely, interesting, and useful critiques of trends in clinical practice, research, and management practices. - William Magee, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Offering a refreshing analytic awareness of the constitutive 'neoliberal' effect on health care, Health Matters not only challenges the status quo, but is inspirational of social change; it reveals the systemic problems. Health Matters focuses on demonstrating how critical health research fills specific lacunae in contemporary health knowledge, thereby offering new and needed insights and inspiration for efforts to change the organization of Canadian health care, making it a serious advance in state-of-the-art research. - Marie Campbell, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria

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Eric Mykhalovskiy is a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. Jacqueline Choiniere is an associate professor with the School of Nursing in the Faculty of Health at York University. Pat Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and professor emeritus of Social Work, Political Economy, and Sociology at Carleton University.

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