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Fighting for life : Health care and democracy in capitalist Poland

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This paper discusses the social and political processes health care transformation in postcommunist Europe has involved in practice. It begins by suggesting a theoretical framework for the study of postcommunist welfare. Focusing on Poland, it examines what lies behind the frictions which have become an integral feature of health care change, which most recently has centred on the privatization of hospitals. An empirically detailed interpretive analysis of the Polish nurses’ protests is put forward, drawing on interviews, protest bulletins, and official and media reports. The paper concludes that the liberalization and privatization currently in train can be seen as a contested ‘revolution from above’ in and through health care, and that the democratic potential offered by the protests has been subverted insofar as health care policy-making has itself become privatized.

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Critical Social Policy

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Thousand Oak : sage publisher., 2011

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English

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02610183

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Vol. 31 no. 1, February 2011.pp. 53-76

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Gender
Neoliberalism
Class
Postcommunism
Fighting for life

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