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Introduction:
The meaning of the term "health"
is properly the subject of social, rather than natural, investigation.
The structure of modern industrial capitalist society appears
to materially and unavoidably produce a meaning of "health"
intrinsically involving substantially preventable disese.
Because in such a society private investment responds to cyclical
and geographic fluctuations in rates of return and competitive
labor markets, much of the disease structure (heart disease,
stroke, kidney failure, and cancer, among others) encompasses
diseases which captive citizens cannot afford to do without.
To prevent those disease through
environmental and workplace cleanup, full employment and geographic
capital stability is to drive away the very private capital
on which economic life is based. |
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