Howard Waitzkin > Quotes

“Neoliberal, market-driven public institutions promote antisocial thinking or behavior and inure individuals to inequity and cruelty. Violence is ubiquitous in modern society, from the marketing of the military to imposing financial austerity to the economic decimating of communities, to the exploitation of employees and devaluing human worth at work.”
― Howard Waitzkin, Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health

“As in the United States, medical professionals in the Global South most often come from higher-income families; even when they do not, they frequently view medicine as a route of upward mobility. As a result, medical professionals tend to ally themselves with the capitalist class, the “national bourgeoisie,” within these countries. They also frequently support cooperative links between the local capitalist class and business interests in economically dominant countries.4 The class position of health professionals has led them to resist social change that would threaten current class structure, either nationally or internationally.”
― Howard Waitzkin, Health Care Under the Knife: Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health