Dr Susan Rosenthal on why capitalism is bad for your health

dublin | worker & community struggles and protests | event notice Tuesday March 27, 2007 17:00 by Patricia Campbell - Independent Workers Union

Workers Health

North American author and physician identifies connection between mental illness and a market driven society

Dr Susan Rosenthal will be reading extracts from her latest book at the Irish launch of her book in:
Buswells’ Hotel… Molesworth Street, Dublin 2
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Wednesday 28th March 2007

North American author and practicing physician Dr. Susan Rosenthal argues in her latest book ‘Power and Powerlessness’ that there is an identifiable connection between mental illness and the type of market led economy currently found in many industrialized countries including Ireland of the Celtic Tiger.

“Social power”, she writes, “is necessary for human health”. Dr Rosenthal claims that, “…most people lack the healthy, fulfilling lives they deserve because they are kept powerless and mistakenly accept this state of affairs as natural or self-inflicted.”

Dr Susan Rosenthal will be reading extracts from her latest book at the Irish launch of her book in:
Buswells’ Hotel… Molesworth Street, Dublin 2
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Wednesday 28th March 2007

Dr Rosenthal will be available for interview by appointment with her trip sponsor - the Independent Workers Union.
For further details contact:
Patricia Campbell at: 00447787371378
or
Tommy McKearney at: 087 2390750

“A courageous book that challenges the limits of what is possible”

POWER and Powerlessness
by Susan Rosenthal
Trafford Publishing, September, 2006
240 pages, quality trade paperback
ISBN: 1-4120-5691-8 … €14.97, £10.48

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Rosenthal has been practicing medicine for more than 30 years and has written many articles on the relationship between health and human relationships. She is also the author of Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-1937 General Motors Sit-Down Strike (1996) and Market Madness and Mental Illness: The Crisis in Mental Health Care (1999). She is a member of the National Writers Union, UAW Local 1981.

www.powerandpowerlessness.com
Contact:
[email protected]