Health Care Reform and Globalisation

This innovative book provides a timely analysis addressing radical health care change in the context of post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, globalisation.

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

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