{"product_id":"on-medicine-as-colonialism-9781629639901","title":"On Medicine as Colonialism","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael Fine\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: PM Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: PM Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Public Policy - Health Care\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","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46317017071767,"sku":"9781629639901","price":876.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781629639901.webp?v=1767710440","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/on-medicine-as-colonialism-9781629639901","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}