- Genre:health & fitness
- Sub-genre:Health Care Issues
- Language:English
- Pages:248
- eBook ISBN:9798317827168
- Hardcover ISBN:9798317827151
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Beginning in 1699, explore the page-turning 400 year saga of the acquisition of riches by rapacious mercenaries inured to human suffering. Weaving memoir, medicine, and mob tactics, Pennington disabuses us of the notion that our present crisis of obesity, chronic disease, and a broken healthcare system is inevitable, inescapable and intractable. Using her own history as a recovered addict, she offers the reader a way out of the centuries-long enslavement born of sugar cultivation and dependency.
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Is the US healthcare system incentivized to keep us ill? That’s the question investigative journalist Shaun A Pennington asks in The New Slavery: Sugar, Healthcare and the Medical Mafia. Weaving memoir and history, with a reporter’s eye for collusion, Pennington connects the dots from plantation bondage to personal addiction to lifelong dependence in a healthcare system run with backroom deals that would make a mafia don blush.
In a sweeping narrative, she takes the reader on a journey through the centuries-long enslavement born of sugar cultivation and the dependency that produced the modern addiction economy that fuels our costly and dysfunctional healthcare system.
