The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare [Hardcover]

This handbook provides a comprehensive and critical overview of the gamut of contemporary issues around health and healthcare from a political economy perspective. Its contributions present a unique challenge to prevailing economic accounts of health and healthcare, which narrowly focus on individual behaviour and market processes.

1. Revitalizing the political economy of health and healthcare in a context of crisis PART I Theorizing health and healthcare 2. Mainstream health economics and the COVID-19 pandemic 3. The economics of conventions 4. Understanding Marx on health: Towards a class-based approach 5. Feminist political economy, health and care 6. Post-Keynesian economics and healthcare 7. New materialisms and the (critical) micropolitical economy of health 8. A lop-sided reflation: The limited contribution of behavioral economics to the political economy of obesity PART II Contemporary political economic dimensions of health 9. A critical political economy of health inequities 10. Issues of social reproduction and the political economy of health 11. Health and the corporate agri-food system 12. Neoliberalism and health in global context: The role of international organizations 13.Neoliberalism and mental health 14. Occupational health and safety in the global garment industry 15. Political economy and social epidemiology in the context of the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa 16. Digital health and capitalism 17. The political economy of health and place: From the Great Compression to COVID-19 PART III Contemporary political-economic dimensions of healthcare 18. Commodified healthcare, profits, priorities and the disregard for life under capitalism 19. The financialization of long-term care in Canada: The case of Ontario 20. The anatomy of Big Pharma 21. Automating the welfare state: The case of disability benefits and services 22. Understanding the health-politics nexus in lc7