Health care is an important problem worldwide. The articles in this issue on health care range from concrete struggles in the U.S. to alternatives in other countries to theoretical analyses of the problem.
Tag - editorial
This issue of the magazine focuses on the organized struggles of people united against corporate and state power. The anti-nuke struggle and the fight against the New Tokyo International Airport at Narita are attempts to democratize decision-making and to oppose the direction of capitalist economic development. In...
An admitted purpose of U.S. aid to underdeveloped countries is to protect North American economic and political interests.
In this issue we are printing two articles that focus on women and health care, one about professionalization of nurses and one about lesbian health issues. Both of these articles raise questions concerning the control of the quality and direction of health care in the US. How much control do workers and patients have...
The stability of capitalism in the US depends a lot on the fact that many of our society's most serious problems are exported abroad. Labor unrest can be minimized by setting up unskilled labor industries in countries where wages are cheap and laws repressive. Pollution problems are postponed by building supersized...
Preterm is an abortion and gynecology clinic in Brookline, just outside Boston. Lucy Matson's article tells the story of the Preterm workers' struggle to unionize for better working conditions and better health care for their patients. When it first opened, Preterm had a reputation for pioneering birth control and...
In this issue we present two articles on the history of the struggle of an urban working-class community, the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, against expansion by Harvard Medical School and related institutions. We feel the articles are important for several reasons. First, they deal with the effectiveness of...
In the major article of this issue, Concerned Rush Students present a detailed analysis of the drug industry's all-pervasive-and subtle influence on doctors' attitudes towards prescription drugs. They clearly ex-pose the contradiction between corporate profit and people's needs in the health care sector. This article...
We are excited to have in this issue several articles relating to women, reflecting in part a shift in priorities within the Boston chapter of Science for the People. We plan to continue this emphasis in future issues, and we encourage our readers to contribute other such articles.
The new description of the organization, magazine, and editorial policy, on page 2, is intended to introduce the magazine to a wider audience and spell out important aspects of its operation. Because readers of the magazine are urged to submit material for publication, we felt that ready availability of the guidelines...