Capitalism
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[The current health system and the spirit of May 68]

30 May 2009 Forty years after the 68 May revolt, we have thought of interest to retrieve part of the revolutionary ideology concerning the role of medical practice in the society they would to change. In essence they said: the current organization of health ... Read more...

Mapping chronic illness in the age of globalization: reclaiming the good for the chronically ill.

30 Mar 2009 Until recently, infectious diseases were the main cause of death worldwide. New medical discoveries and the evolution of public health improved life expectancy and the ability to survive acute threats, thus changing the course of diseases from acute ... Read more...

'Consumers are patients!' shared decision-making and treatment non-compliance as business opportunity.

27 Feb 2009 This article describes an aspect of the progressive insertion of commercial interests into the relationship between patients and their clinicians, with particular reference to psychiatry. Treatment noncompliance, a long-standing problem for ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Capitalism'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Q&A: Gustav Metzger on destruction. Interview by Emma Marris. 29 Sep 2009
• Competing social tensions in health care. 30 Aug 2009
• The Demise of Surgical Code # 63020: why health care costs must be transformed into widgets. 30 Jul 2009
• [The current health system and the spirit of May 68] 30 May 2009
• Mapping chronic illness in the age of globalization: reclaiming the good for the chronically ill. 30 Mar 2009
• Shelf life. 30 Mar 2009
• 'Consumers are patients!' shared decision-making and treatment non-compliance as business opportunity. 27 Feb 2009
• The unlicensed lives of antidepressants in India: generic drugs, unqualified practitioners, and floating prescriptions. 27 Feb 2009
• Recession Watch: Cooperation must rule. 17 Feb 2009
• [Medicine is facing a crisis] 2 Feb 2009
• [Bubbles, dreams, importance of the civilization] 26 Jan 2009
• "Look for the moral and sex sides of the problem": investigating Jewishness, desire, and discipline at Macy's Department Store, New York City, 1913. 30 Dec 2008
• Rapid large-scale privatization and death rates in ex-communist countries: an analysis of stress-related and health system mechanisms. 30 Dec 2008
• Are you sitting comfortably? The political economy of the body. 30 Dec 2008
• From Wall Street to Main Street: how will the economic meltdown impact health care reform? 30 Oct 2008
• Invisible colleges, private patronage and commercial profits versus public goods, government funding and 'crowding-out': Terence Kealey on the motivations and incentives driving science. 30 Oct 2008
• Vetting McCain's health plan. 11 Oct 2008
• [Dental care for foreigners in Hungary] 29 Sep 2008
• A fair deal for tougher times. 29 Sep 2008
• The collapse of capitalism, values - and peer review? 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Capitalism'

Definition: A political and economic system characterized by individual rights, by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market. (From Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed)

Descriptor UI: D030861

Alternative terms: Capitalism;

Tree Number: I01.261.100; I01.696.100;

History Note: 2002; use POLITICAL SYSTEMS 1990-2001

Technical Notes: specify geog