Unhealthy Times
Political Economy of Health and Health Care in Canada
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2001
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780195415094
- Publish Date
- Mar 2001
- List Price
- $99.95
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Description
Pat Armstrong is a 2011 Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada.
Unhealthy Times brings together some of the enormous amount of research being undertaken within a broadly defined political economy framework about health and health care. Th book is divided into three sections: Locating Health Care, with essays on homecare, globalization, and a comparison of the Canadian system with the British National Health Service; Locating Evidence, with essays on research in health services, women, and the pharmaceutical industry; and Locating Risk, with essays on work, environmental contamination, and poverty.
About the authors
Pat Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. She is the author of numerous books and articles in health and gender and has held a Canada Health Services Research Foundation/Canadian Institute of Health Research Chair in Health Services.
Hugh Armstrong is a Distinguished Research Professor and professor emeritus of Social Work, Political Economy, and Sociology at Carleton University.
David Coburn is Professor of Public Health Sciences at the University of Toronto.