Wasting Away: The Undermining of Canadian Health Care

Wasting Away is a provocative text that examines and assesses the Canadian health care system. This seven-chapter book explores the development of the Canadian health care system and breaks the analysis down into accessible units: who provides (the institutions and the people); who pays (funding sources); and who decides (public, private, and patients). The concluding chapter sums up the winners and losers in this system. A new Introduction by the authors thoroughly updates the subject.

Pat Armstrong is a full professor of Sociology at York University in Canada. She received her PhD and MA from Carleton University.
Hugh Armstrong is Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University in Canada. He earned his PhD in sociology from the University of Montreal and his MA from Carleton University.