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Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
Human beings protest their oppression with open rebellion and through symptoms of sickness and distress. The prison system crushes the rebels, medicine treats the sick, and psychiatry subordinates the distressed. The goal of psychiatric “treatment” is to resign the discontented to their lot and drug the resisters into submission.
Continue reading...Health Care or Damage Control?
25. March 2008
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Capitalism cannot deliver genuine health care. A real health-care system would oppose profitable practices like hazardous work, adulterated food, industrial pollution and wars of acquisition. Putting health first requires a fundamentally different social system.
Continue reading...Pain is the Price of Remaining Human
6. December 2007
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Human suffering should not be treated as individual and medical, but as social and political.
Continue reading...Abortion: Whose Decision?
28. April 2007
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The Supreme Court has banned a form of late-term abortion on the basis that it wants to protect women from making harmful decisions. Where did it get the idea that abortion is harmful, or that women can't be trusted to make their own decisions?
Continue reading...Profit Parasite Attacks Medical System
3. March 2007
In any sane society, there would be no profit in medicine. There would be no profit in any human activity.
Continue reading...We Must Pull Together or Be Pulled Apart
14. October 2006
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By focusing on individuals, the medical system dissipates the class rage that propels social change.
Continue reading...Health and Social Policy
1. June 1999
While the authors of this book shatter "common sense" myths about health, they promote another myth – that health policy is shaped by science, when it is actually shaped by the needs of the capitalist system.
Continue reading...Caring for Profit in Canada’s Medical System
1. February 1999
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In Caring for Profit, Colleen Fuller exposes the corporate players and their allies in medicine and government who are opening Canada’s health-care system to market forces.
Continue reading...The Myth of Scarcity
1. January 1999
The myth of scarcity is used to limit majority access to medical and social services. In reality, society has more than enough resources to meet human needs.
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