What is Social Medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9201567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Anderson (0000-0002-9092-2580), Matthew R Anderson, Lanny Smith, Victor W Sidel (0000-0002-0316-0590) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 26 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Monthly Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520 |
| Publisher | Monthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.14452/mr-056-08-2005-01_3 |
| OpenAlex | W2061067323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The past two decades have seen a rapid expansion of the corporate agenda in the field of health and health care. Rather than moving toward a system of universal access to medical care in the United States, the access to and quality of clinical services is being turned over increasingly to the insurance industry. Patients are now "clients" and clinical services are "product lines." More clinical research is now funded by the pharmaceutical industry than the National Institutes of Health; pharmaceutical dollars pay the salaries of top academics and set the national research agenda. Clinicians and patients alike are wooed by sophisticated advertising campaigns (often disguised as education) that promote expensive drugs of dubious efficacy. The insertion of "market rationality" into health care has not brought the hoped for curbing of health care costs. The United States, despite spending more per capita on medical care than any other country in the world, continues to perform poorly on many health indicators, with a life expectancy at birth that ranks twenty-seventh in the world. This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website
Business · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health care · Life expectancy · Per capita · Political science · Population · Product (mathematics) · Public relations · Quality (philosophy) · Health and Medical Research Impacts · Medicine · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare · Primary Care and Health Outcomes
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2021 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |