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Chapter 18 - Morbid Symptoms, Organic Crises, and Enclosures of the Commons

Global Health Since the 2008 World Economic Crisis

from Section 3 - Analyzing Some Reasons for Poor Health and Responsibilities to Address Them

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2021

By
Stephen Gill ,
Isabella Bakker  and
Dillon Wamsley
Edited by
Solomon Benatar  and
Gillian Brock
Solomon Benatar
Affiliation:
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Cape Town
Gillian Brock
Affiliation:
Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
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Summary

We have previously argued that the 2008 global financial and economic crisis was a clear manifestation of an unstable and contradictory world characterized by a disjunction between (1) massive economic growth and unprecedented advances in science, technology, and medical care and (2) the widening of disparities in wealth and health within and between nations. We also argued that the global financial crisis was much more than a crisis of capitalist accumulation or a necessary self-correction aided by macroeconomic intervention and bailouts.

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Global Health
Ethical Challenges
 , pp. 242 - 255
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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