Health under capitalism: a global political economy of structural pathogenesis

Sell, Susan K.; Williams, Owain David

doi:10.1080/09692290.2019.1659842

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“…As has been the case with many of the heath market failures detailed above, it can be claimed that mass market failures experienced in private health during the pandemic have been long in the making, and have much to do with four decades of neoliberal policies, practices and ideas (Rowden 2013 ; Stuckler and Basu 2013 ; Sell and Williams 2019 ; Sparke 2020 ). Neoliberal austerity and retreat of the state from health systems have eroded publicly provided health systems and capacities (Labonté and Stuckler 2016 ; De Ceukelaire and Bodini 2020 ), with the counterpart marketization, privatization and commodification of healthcare expanding the private provision of health (Schrecker 2016 ).…”

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COVID-19 and Private Health: Market and Governance Failure

Williams

2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic has produced mass market failure in global private health, particularly in tertiary care. Low-and-middle income countries (LMICs) dependent on private providers as a consequence of neglect of national health systems or imposed conditionalities under neoliberal governance were particularly effected. When beds were most needed for the treatment of acute COVID-19 cases, private providers suffered a liquidity crisis, itself propelled by the primary effects of lockdowns, government regulations and patient deferrals, and the secondary economic impacts of the pandemic. This led to a private sector response—involving, variously, hospital closures, furloughing of staff, refusals of treatment, and attempts to profit by gouging patients. A crisis in state and government relations has multiplied across LMICs. Amid widespread national governance failures—either crisis bound or historic—with regards to poorly resourced public health services and burgeoning private health—governments have responded with increasing legal and financial interventions into national health markets. In contrast, multilateral governance has been path dependent with regard to ongoing commitments to privately provided health. Indeed, the global financial institutions appear to be using the COVID crisis as a means to recommit to the roll out of markets in global health, this involving the further scaling back of the state.

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2020

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“…This focus on the exceptional risks excising the way “normal” politics conditions health and ill-health. As COVID-19 has further exposed capitalism's “structural and pathogenic qualities” ( Sell and Williams 2020 , 6), we should look beyond securitization theory and security more generally. A broadened knowledge production and consumption would help us better understand the intersections of gender, race, class, geographical location, sexuality, (dis)ability and more, and how they impact on health ( Davies et al 2019 ).…”

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FORUM: COVID-19 and IR Scholarship: One Profession, Many Voices

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International Studies Review

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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected virtually every aspect of life, for individuals, communities, nations, regions, and the international system. In this forum, scholars from around the world with diverse areas of expertise consider the contributions of international relations (IR) scholarship in our understanding of the politics and governance challenges surrounding the pandemic. The seven essays that follow together examine how our current state of knowledge speaks to the theme of ISA 2020: “Multiple Identities and Scholarship in a Global IR: One Profession, Many Voices.” Each essay features a research area and body of scholarship that both informs our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic and reflects on how the pandemic challenges us to push our scholarship and intellectual community further. Together, these essays highlight the diversity of our discipline of IR and how its many voices may bring us together in one conversation. La pandemia de COVID-19 ha afectado prácticamente a todos los aspectos de la vida para las personas, las comunidades, las naciones, las regiones y el sistema internacional. En este foro, los académicos de todo el mundo con diversas áreas de experiencia consideran las contribuciones de los estudios de las relaciones internacionales (International Relations, IR) a nuestro entendimiento de la política y los desafíos de gobierno que rodean a la pandemia. Los siete ensayos a continuación analizan en conjunto cómo nuestro estado de conocimiento actual aborda el tema de la Asociación de Estudios Internacionales (International Studies Association, ISA) de 2020: “Múltiples identidades y estudios en una IR global: una profesión, muchas voces.” Cada ensayo presenta un área de investigación y un cuerpo de estudios que conforman nuestro entendimiento de la pandemia de COVID-19 y también reflexionan sobre cómo esta nos desafía a impulsar aún más a nuestra comunidad académica e intelectual. En conjunto, estos ensayos destacan la diversidad de nuestra disciplina de relaciones internacionales y cómo sus numerosas voces pueden juntarnos en una conversación. La pandémie de COVID 2019 a affecté pratiquement tous les aspects de la vie, que ce soit les individus, les communautés, les nations, les régions ou le système international. Dans cette tribune, des chercheurs du monde entier spécialisés dans divers domaines d'expertise réfléchissent aux contributions des recherches en relations internationales à notre compréhension des défis politiques et de gouvernance entourant la pandémie. Les sept essais ainsi réunis examinent la manière dont l’état actuel de nos connaissances aborde le thème de la convention 2020 de l'Association d’études internationales : « Identités et recherches multiples dans des relations internationales globales : une profession, de nombreuses voix ». Chaque essai présente un domaine de recherche et un corpus d’études qui éclaire notre compréhension de la pandémie de COVID 2019 tout en amenant une réflexion sur la façon dont la pandémie nous remet en question et nous pousse à aller plus loin dans nos recherches et notre communauté intellectuelle. Ensemble, ces essais mettent en évidence la diversité de notre discipline des relations internationales et la manière dont ses nombreuses voix peuvent nous réunir dans un débat.

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“…This climate change eventassemblage comprises (in no particular order): human consumers; finite non-human environment; market economy; industrialisation; production; profit; energy; waste; greenhouse gases; Sun; climate This event-assemblage casts the capitalist economic system and environmental sustainability as fundamentally opposed, with the former wastefully plundering the Earth's finite resources. However, this event-assemblage understates the inertia associated with the wider political contexts of market economies (for instance, the vested interests within capitalist economies, the military-industrial complex that ties production directly to national or regional ideologies, the dependency of democratic societies upon taxation to fund welfare and a public sector) and the global character of growth-oriented market economics (Elbe & Long, 2020;Sell & Williams, 2020;Wright & Nyberg, 2015). This political edifice limits the potential for a swift shift from a capitalist to a no-growth economic model.…”

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Economics, the climate change policy-assemblage and the new materialisms: towards a comprehensive policy

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2020

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Climate change policy is a contested field, with rival perspectives underpinning radically different policy propositions: from encouraging the market to innovate technical solutions to climate change through to the replacement of a market economy with an eco-socialist model. These differing policy options draw upon a variety of economic concepts and approaches, with significant consequent divergences in their policy recommendations. In this paper, we consider policy as assembled from a wide range of sociomaterial componentssome human, others non-human. Using a 'new materialist' toolkit, we explore four contemporary climate change policies to unpack these policy-assemblages, and assess the different uses made of economics in each assemblage. We conclude that none of these contemporary policies is adequate to address climate change. Yet despite the incommensurability between how these disparate policies use economic concepts and theories, we suggest a materialist synthesis based on a comprehensive climate change policyassemblage.

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Health under capitalism: a global political economy of structural pathogenesis

Cited by 79 publications

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COVID-19 and Private Health: Market and Governance Failure

COVID-19 and Private Health: Market and Governance Failure

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