Medicine and Labour Chapter 8 Politics and Public Health
Human Health this Millenium For three-quarters of this millennium human beings lived in a relatively …
Medicine and Labour Chapter 7 Industry and Medicine
For a profession which is deeply depoliticised, and yet committed to health, conflicts arise over …
Medicine and Labour Chapter 6 Priorities, Medical Minorities and Power in the NHS
A Rational View of Priorities The purpose of a health-care system is to prevent illness …
Medicine and Labour Chapter 5 Medicine and the NHS
Many on the left assume that the BMA has always been hostile to the National …
Medicine and Labour Chapter 4: The Left in Medicine 2 Alternatives to Trade Unionism
A Political Option: the SMA The Socialist Medical Association was founded in 1930. It has …
Medicine and Labour Chapter 3: The Left in Medicine I: The MPU
It is possible to envisage several ways in which left-wing doctors may organise themselves. They …
Medicine and Labour Chapter 1 Introduction
Medical politics in the first six months of 1983 was a heady revolutionary experience with …
Medicine and Labour
The Politics of a Profession By Dr Steve Watkins 1987 Introduction The Ideology of Medicine …
The Transport and Health Study Group
In 1989 seven people gathered in Manchester Town Hall to found the Transport and Health …
Cycle Helmets – Compulsory?
The Transport and Health Study Group is the principal public health organisation in the transport …
Medicine and Labour Chapter 2 The Ideology of Medicine and the Socialist Response
To understand the medical profession it is necessary to understand its history and how it …