About the author -- More praise for The Health of Nations -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- PART I / Introduction -- Introduction: neoliberalism kills -- Map of the book -- PART II / Why are things so bad? -- 1 Why has the economics of health-care policy gone wrong? -- In health care, who decides - about what? -- Current political economy of health care -- More observations on current health-care economics -- Conclusion -- 2 Why have broader policies affecting health been inadequate? -- Shifting power -- The WHO's Commission on Social Determinants of Health -- The state and the market -- Conclusion -- 3 The malaise of neoliberalism in health, health care and health economics -- Neoliberalism -- Neoliberalism and health care -- 4 Neoliberalism, the global institutions and health -- Introduction -- The World Health Organization -- The World Trade Organization -- The World Bank -- The IMF -- Conclusion -- PART III / Case studies -- 5 The US: the fear of 'socialised' health care -- Public intellectuals discuss the reforms -- The reforms -- Ethics and values -- Conclusion -- 6 The UK National Health Service and the market -- The formation of the NHS -- Market reform -- Experience elsewhere -- The public sector ethos -- A final word -- 7 South Africa, neoliberalism and HIV/AIDS -- HIV/AIDS and the pharmaceutical industry -- South African health care -- South African health -- Some parallels with the UK -- Conclusion -- 8 Australia and victim blaming -- The Preventative Health Taskforce -- The corporatisation of government? -- So what might be done? -- Conclusion -- 9 Local community versus corporation -- Health policy and the corporatisation of government -- Yarloop, Alcoa and the corporatisation of the West Australian government -- University capture -- Conclusion -- 10 The pharmaceutical industry -- What to do? -- Reacting to Big Pharma -- Conclusion.

11 Neoliberalism and global warming -- Map: Estimated deaths attributed to climate change in the year 2000, by subregion -- Global warming, health and political economy -- How did it happen? -- South Africa, the World Bank and coal -- So what is the answer? -- PART IV / Solutions -- 12 The solutions in theory: communitarian claims -- Communitarianism -- Levels of preferences -- Communitarian claims -- Claims in practice -- Conclusion -- 13 The solutions in health care -- How to build on communitarian claims in health care -- A political economy of health care -- A constitution for health care -- Citizens' juries -- Conclusion -- 14 The solutions in society more generally -- The end of neoliberalism? -- Some principles -- Power and values -- Social institutions and compassion -- PART V / How things might get better -- 15 Kerala: community participation -- Kerala's health -- Why so good? -- Some vignettes in Kerala -- Coca-Cola and Kerala -- Conclusion -- 16 Cuban health care and social determinants of health: just too good for the US? -- Cuban health and health care -- Cuban health and the US -- Conclusion -- 17 Venezuela: power to the community -- The revolution in Venezuelan health care -- Does it work? -- Transferable elsewhere? -- Conclusion -- PART VI / Conclusion -- Conclusion: can we change? -- Why do we fail? -- Can we change? -- References -- Index.