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Article: Health Policy in the Market State.(Review)
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Social Issues
- Article date:
- May 1, 1999
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Linda Hancock (ed.), Health Policy in the Market State, St. Leonards NSW, Allen & Unwin, 1999, 343 pp., ISBN 1-86448-724-0, pbk, $39-95
In an increasingly globalised era, the domain of social policy is no longer the domain of nation states. The transfer of ideas and agendas across national boundaries, while not necessarily recent, now follows the extensive and complex patterns of capital (as indeed does labour). This collection of Australian writing on various aspects of health policy has a global as well as a contemporary tone to it, that is highlighted by the author of the preface, Anna Coote. Well known for her work in critical policy studies in the UK, Coote ...