Description:
This book calls into question the complexity of social, political, cultural, and technological aspects of the health care system. It explores how critical social science research can be put into action to improve health care in Canada.
Brief description:
Eric Mykhalovskiy is a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.
Review Quotes:
"Offering a refreshing analytic awareness of the constitutive 'neoliberal' effect on health care, Health Matters not only challenges the status quo, but is inspirational of social change; it reveals the systemic problems. Health Matters focuses on demonstrating how critical health research fills specific lacunae in contemporary health knowledge, thereby offering new and needed insights and inspiration for efforts to change the organization of Canadian health care, making it a serious advance in state-of-the-art research."
--Marie Campbell, Professor Emerita, Faculty of Human and Social Development, University of Victoria" Health Matters offers a number of timely, interesting, and useful critiques of trends in clinical practice, research, and management practices."
--William Magee, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto