Health Economics or Sex and Revolution

Health Economics

Author: Peter Zweifel

Health Economics is the most complete text available on the economics of health behavior and health care delivery. Appropriate both for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students of economics, this text provides the key analytical tools required to understand current research, presenting empirical evidence on each issue and summarizing results for easy comprehension. Issues discussed include the "cost explosion" in health care, the power of medical associations, the search for remuneration systems with favorable incentives, and technological change in medicine. Without neglecting ethical concerns, modern microeconomic theory is applied to formulate theoretical implications and predictions, and key arguments are summarized to facilitate follow–up, review, and documentation. Rather than simplifying the issues facing today's healthcare systems, the book models existing complexities as they are, adapting economics to reflect the views of the average person.

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Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba

Author: Lois M Smith

The Cuban revolution attempted to make equality in every sphere the basic operating principle of society. Equality among the sexes, it postulated, would resolve the "woman issue" once and for all. Sex and Revolution: Women in Socialist Cuba is the first book-length examination of revolutionary Cuba's attempt to conceptualize, prioritize, and implement sexual equality, offering an assessment of the successes, failures, and dilemmas of that process. In the wake of the revolution, which crushed both Cuban capitalism and Catholic power, a host of redistributive policies helped make Cuba one of the most egalitarian societies in the world. The history of the Cuban revolution provides rich detail regarding the interplay among gender, power, ideology, and culture. Certain revolutionary efforts to transform women's lives were extraordinarily successful, while others fell short of expectations. This book reviews the range of revolutionary strategies encompassed in structures, policies, and laws to address sexual inequality and difference. Ideal for courses in Latin American studies and women's studies, it offers insights into the implications of the way power is organized and managed, and analyzes the limitations of state policies in promoting and managing social and cultural transformations as significant as those regarding relations between the sexes.

Table of Contents:

	Abbreviations
	Introduction	3
1	Women in Prerevolutionary Cuba	7
2	The Struggle Against the Dictator, 1952-1958	22
3	Making Social Revolution: The Federation of Cuban Women	33
4	The Federation of Cuban Women: Activism and Power	45
5	Women and the Health Revolution	57
6	Reproductive Health	69
7	Women and the Revolution in Education	82
8	The Campaign for Women's Employment, 1959-1980	95
9	Progress and Problems in Women's Employment, 1980-1992	109
10	Sexual Discrimination in the Workplace	121
11	Day Care and Other Services	131
12	Family and Revolution	144
13	Family Dynamics	153
14	Sexuality and Revolution	168
	Conclusion	187
	Notes	189
	Bibliography	227
	Index	237