The Cultural crisis of modern medicine / [electronic resource] / edited by John Ehrenreich.. — New York : : Monthly Review Press,, c1978.. — viii, 300 p. ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Part 1. The social functions of medicine : some theoretical considerations -- Part 2. Medicine and women: a case study in social control -- Part 3. Medicine and imperialism : of you the story is told -- : Medicine and social control / : Medicine as an institution of social control / : On the structural constraints of state intervention in health / : "Sick" women of the upper classes / : The politics of birth control, 1920-1940 : the impact of professionals / : The cultural warping of childbirth / : Pediatricians and mothers / : A funny thing happened on the way to the orifice : women in gynecology textbooks / : Medicine and colonialism / : Public health in imperialism : early Rockefeller programs at home and abroad / : Medicine and imperialism / : The military medicinemen / Barbara and John Ehrenreich -- Irving Kenneth Zola -- Marc Renaud -- Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English -- Linda Gordon -- Doris Haire -- Mary C. Howell -- Diana Scully and Pauline Bart -- Frantz Fanon -- E. Richard Brown -- James A. Paul -- Howard Levy.
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Social medicine. Medicine--Political aspects. Women's health services. Médecine sociale. Médecine--Aspect politique. Femmes--Santé, Services de. Delivery of Health Care--United States--Collected Works. Social Control, Informal--United States--Collected Works. Social Medicine--United States--Collected Works. Women--United States--Collected Works. Geneeskunde. Sociale aspecten. Politieke aspecten.