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  1. Cancer is Capitalist Violence
    Anthropology Against Oncology

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    It’s been two decades since the publication of Martha Balsham’s landmark study, “Cancer in the Community: Class and Medical Authority (1993).” Balshem, a hospital-based anthropologist, documented how a Philadelphia “lay community” rejected medical advice to stop smoking, eat fruits and vegetables and schedule regular screening tests. The working class community of Tannerstown (a pseudonym) instead blamed air pollution from highway traffic and nearby chemical plants, as well as fate, for their cancers.
  2. HealthSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring information and resources about health, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  3. How Class Kills
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A recent study showing rising mortality rates among middle-aged whites drives home the lethality of class inequality.
  4. Medicare Myths and Realities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Since medicare is an extremely popular social program, the media and right-wing politicians have learned that it is unwise to attack it directly. Instead, they propagate myths designed to undermine public support for, and confidence in, the health care system, with the goal of gradually undermining and dismantling it.


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