Health under Capitalism

January 13, 2010 19:00

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Health under Capitalism
Wednesday 13th January – 7pm to 8.30pm
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Launching the 2010 edition of ‘Socialist Register‘, editor Colin Leys, along with contributors Wendy Savage and Jonathan Tomlinson, discuss the state of healthcare within capitalist systems.
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The Socialist Register was founded by Ralph Miliband and John Saville in 1964 as ‘an annual survey of movements and ideas’ from the standpoint of the independent new left. It is currently edited by Leo Panitch, Colin Leys, Greg Albo and Vivek Chibber, assisted by an editorial collective of eminent scholars in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas. Each volume is focused on a topical theme and features a selection of inter-disciplinary analyses taking in diverse geographical locations.

This volume examines the struggle between commercial forces, across the world, seeking to make health care a field of capital accumulation, and popular forces fighting to keep it -- or make it -- a public service with equal access for all.

It addresses the political and accumulation strategies of ‘big pharma’, the global food industry’s production of hunger and obesity, and the relationships between capitalism and mental illness, amongst other topics. It also examines the forces at work in a broad range of national health care systems to explain:

- President Obama’s plans for the US health system,
-The commodification of European public healthcare,
-Systemic gender discrimination in the health systems of Sub-Saharan Africa
-Cuba’s egalitarian health policies at home and abroad
-What we can learn from HIV/AIDS mobilizations to build a comprehensive public health movement.

Colin Leys, along with contributors Wendy Savage and Jonathan Tomlinson, will be discussing the state of healthcare across the world, followed by a Q &A session with audience members.
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