On Medicine as Colonialism [paper-cover] (Signed)

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On Medicine as Colonialism by Dr. Michael Fine

ISBN: 9780375823770
new, paper cover, signed by author

Annotation:
In this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael Fine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the costly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. Hospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. On Medicine as Colonialism shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the world. Focusing on how health care profiteers co-opt the state’s regulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from communities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become tools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes impossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.

Availability Note: This book will not be shipped until after the signing event date of Feb 19, 2023

Table of Contents
Introduction: Two Stories and A Definition
Chapter One: Medicine and Colonialism
Chapter Two: Hospitals
Chapter Three: Pharma and Pharmaceutical Retailers
Chapter Four: Specialists, Surgi-centers, Radiologists, Cardiologists, and Tests
Chapter Five: Administrators, Consultants, Lawyers, Doctors
Chapter Six: Primary Care
Chapter Seven: Insurance Companies
Chapter Eight: Research
Chapter Nine: Medical Colonialism as, well, Colonialism Itself
Chapter Ten: Covid-19
Chapter Eleven: Final Thoughts, Summary and Conclusions, and a Little About How to Fix This Mess

About the Author

Michael Fine is a Rhode Island author, a community organizer, family physician, public health official, and public health policy provocateur. He is the author of Health Care Revolt, Abundance, and The Bull and Other Stories.