{"product_id":"on-medicine-as-colonialism-paperback","title":"On Medicine as Colonialism - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael Fine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHospitals, insurance companies, Big Pharma, specialists, and even primary care doctors have all become tools of the new health profiteers. \u003cem\u003eOn Medicine as Colonialism\u003c\/em\u003e shows how the American health care system cannibalizes communities in the US and around the \u003cbr\u003eworld. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765781922080,"sku":"9781629639901","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/435ed4c524be31d23f168e60a95a9684.webp?v=1780279843","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/on-medicine-as-colonialism-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}