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Kapitał i ekologia choroby
Capital and the Ecology of Disease

Author(s): John Foster, Brett Clark, Hannah Holleman
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Health and medicine and law, Environmental interactions, Globalization
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: ecosocialism; globalization; capitalism; socialized medicine; environ-mental health; epidemiological rift

Summary/Abstract: In this article, the authors describe the impact of global capitalism on emergence and spread of diseases. Furthermore, they emphasize the insufficiency of the medical model fixed on the individual health, which functions within the framework of market economy, in addressing the issue of infectious diseases. Con-trary to this failed model, the authors argue for socialized medicine as the proper response to contemporary health crises and they provide a historical reconstruction of this approach.

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 45
  • Page Range: 167-202
  • Page Count: 36
  • Language: Polish