Welcome to the first issue of CLASS and HEALTH
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CLASS and HEALTH #1 - Sept. 2008 ARTICLES:
- Engels and the WHO Report
On August 28, the World Health Organization announced that "INEQUALITIES ARE KILLING PEOPLE ON A GRAND SCALE." Has anything changed since the 19th Century? This fictional interview with Frederick Engels addresses that question. (http://susanrosenthal.com/articles/engels-and-the-who-report)
- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray those who protest as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain. (http://susanrosenthal.com/articles/mental-illness-or-social-sickness)
- My Pain, Their Gain
Health worker, Jane Edgett, describes how the province of Alberta used her to wipe out its deficit and justify privatizing its medical system. Then it threw her into the garbage. (http://susanrosenthal.com/general/my-pain-their-gain)
NEW!
- AUDIO-BOOK: Lyn Gerry, radio host of Unwelcome Guests, is reading the entire text of POWER and Powerlessness on air. Lyn invites listeners to submit questions for the author. (http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/29025)
- CLASS, HEALTH and HEALTH CARE: This pamphlet explores how healthy profits create sick people, how class determines health more than any other factor, how Canada and the U.S. both ration medical care (in different ways), how all existing medical systems are disease-care systems, and what a genuine health-care system might look like. (http://susanrosenthal.com/pamphlets/class-health-and-health-care)
INTERNATIONAL HEALTH WORKERS FOR PEOPLE OVER PROFIT (IHWPOP)
Health workers know how hard it is to meet people's needs in an industry dominated by corporate greed and government neglect. WE MUST ORGANIZE! If you work in the mental or physical health industry, anywhere in the world, JOIN US. (http://www.healthworkersinternational.org/)
Solidarity is the best medicine
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