History
Conner, Clifford. A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and Low Mechanicks
Ehrenreich, Barbara. English, Deirdre. Nurses, Witches, and Midwives: A History of Women Healers
Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
International Socialist Review. Disabilities and Marxism
Krause, Elliott A. Power and Illness: The Political Sociology of Health and Medical Care
Marx, Karl. Capital Volume One. Chapter 10 - The Working Day
Mullan, Fitzhugh. White Coat, Clenched Fist: The Political Education of an American Physician
Navarro, Vincente. Medicine under Capitalism (contents)
Starr, Paul. The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The rise of a sovereign profession and the making of a vast industry
Ivan Illich: Medical Nemesis
Political Economic Analyses
Brennan, Troyen A., Berwick, Donald M. New Rules: Regulation, Markets, and the Quality of American Health Care
Glenn, Evelyn Nakano. Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America
Gordon, Suzanne. Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermines Nurses and Patient Care
Gordon, Suzanne. The Complexities of Care: Nursing Reconsidered
Marmor, Theodore R. The Politics of Medicare
Milio, Nancy. Public Health in the Market (Book Review)
Panitch, Leo. Leys, Colin. Morbid Symptoms: Socialist Register 2010: Health Under Capitalism (Book reviews 1 2 Interview with author )
Grace, Change. Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy
Steve Early http://www.haymarketbooks.org/event/3143
Cal Winslow: Labor’s Civil War in California: NUHW
Alternatives
Berthold, Tim. Miller, Jennifer. Foundations for Community Health Workers
Ivan Illich: Medical Nemesis: An Expropriation of Health
summary http://healthvsmedicine.blogspot.com/2005/02/medical-nemesis.html
Doctors for Global Health: Liberation Medicine/Psychology
Medicine, Race, & Gender
Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Washington, Harriet (Author interview on Democracy Now!). Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
National Transgender Discrimination Survey Report on health and health care (2010)
Pharmaceuticals
Law, Jacky. Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda
Blogs
www.biodiverseresistance.blogspot.com
The Health Care Blog (wall street endorsed)
CripChick (Stacey Milbern is a powerchair-roaring, poetry-stringing, people power-dreaming disabled queer woman of color. After pouring the last five years of her life into organizing with the Disabled Young People's Collective, she is currently taking a break from traditional organizing to write, make media and deepen relationships. She is most interested in building beloved community with other disabled queer people of color and our loved ones.)
Leaving Evidence (From a queer disabled woman of color korean american transracial and transnational adoptee working, creating and loving towards wholeness and connection, love and liberation.)
http://healthvsmedicine.blogspot.com/
Websites/ Organizations
Alliance for People with Disabilities (indy living, anti-institution, based in Seattle)
PHI (“PHI is working to improve the quality of eldercare and disability services by improving the jobs of direct-care workers.”)
Nursing Home Campaign - Boston
MindFreedom International (nonprofit organization that unites 100 sponsor and affiliate grassroots groups with thousands of individual members to win human rights and alternatives for people labeled with psychiatric disabilities. A nonviolent revolution in mental health care.)
Articles
“The Lincoln Hospital Offensive” (1970) (Lincoln Hospital take over)
Dolgoff, Sam. The Anarchist Collective (collectivization of hospitals w/physicians by @s during Spanish rev - different context, still instructive)
Russell, Marta. “No Nursing Homes on wheels” (2002) (Disabilities rights perspectives)
Navarro, Vicente.“Getting the Facts Right: Why Hillary's Health Care Plan Really Failed” (2007)
Goodman, Benny. “A Marxist Healthcare Polemic” (The German Ideology and Healthcare)
Boris, Organizing Homecare workers in Welfare state [Politics and Society March 2006]
Henry-Lopez: Cultural Change Management in Long Term care: Shop floor view [Politics and Society March 2006]
Television/ Movies
PBS http://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/nursinghomes/timeline.html
Frontline PBS. Obama's Deal
Frontline PBS. Can you afford to retire
Frontline PBS. 10 trillion and counting (the right's justification for cutting social sec/medicare)
Frontline PBS. Sick Around the world (other healthcare systems)