{"product_id":"on-medicine-as-colonialism-9781629639901","title":"On Medicine as Colonialism","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this strident, necessary, meticulously researched book Michael \u003cbr\u003eFine uses the COVID-19 pandemic and many other examples to show the \u003cbr\u003ecostly failure of the American health care system in bold relief. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even \u003cbr\u003eprimary care doctors have all become tools of the new health \u003cbr\u003eprofiteers. \u003cem\u003eOn Medicine as Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the American \u003cbr\u003ehealth care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the \u003cbr\u003eworld. Focusing on how health care profiteers co-opt the state's \u003cbr\u003eregulatory power, Medicare, and Medicaid to extract resources from \u003cbr\u003ecommunities, this book reveals how medicine and health care have become \u003cbr\u003etools of a new health colonialism, turning medicine on its head, so that\u003cbr\u003e individuals and communities lose their agency, health becomes \u003cbr\u003eimpossible, and profits are used to dismantle democracy itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629639901\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.80d","brand":"Michael Fine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42599686865077,"sku":"9781629639901","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ef0e5bc1-2b93-489b-b898-a89d62184f40.jpg?v=1673999986","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/on-medicine-as-colonialism-9781629639901","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}