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  Managed care or managed inequality? A call for critiques of market-based medicine

  Critiques the growing dominance of market-based medicine in the United states against the background of existing problems with quality of care, rising costs, devaluation of doctor-patient relationships, and, especially, persistent inequalities of access and outcomes.
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  African Independent Churches in Mozambique: Healing the afflictions of inequality

  Argues that growing inequality has led to declining social cohesion, heightened individual competition, fear of interpersonal violence, and intensified conflict between spouses in poor families.
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  Why nation-states and journalists can't teach people to be healthy: Power and pragmatic miscalculation in public discourses on health

  How Venezuelan public health officials collaborated with journalists in producing information about cholera in January-December 1991.
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  Deadly inequality in the health care "safety net": Uninsured ethnic minorities' struggle to live with life-threatening illnesses

  The difficulties people experience in seeking health care through the health care "safety net", which provides most of the health care that uninsured people receive, and critiques the gaps, inconsistencies, and failures of such care.