Health and Care in Neoliberal Times

This book argues that neoliberal changes in health and social care go beyond resource allocations, priority setting, and privatisation, and manifest in an invidious erosion of the quality of our social relationships, including relationships between care provider and care recipient.

Neil Small is Professor Emeritus of Health Research at the University of Bradford, UK and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.

1.Introduction. Part I: Underlying ideas. 2.The Nature of Change. Part II: The impacts of neoliberalism. 3.Change in action: Neoliberalism and the economics of the NHS. 4.Changing organisations and the impact of neoliberalism on health professions. 5.Consequences: how neoliberalism makes us sick. 6.How ideological shifts are manifest in society: In collective social attitudes and in individuals. Part III: Culture as diagnosis and as prescription. 7.Culture. 8.Aspects of culture that might be damaged and need repair. Part IV: Conclusion. 9.Conclusion.