The impact of capitalism on mental health: An epidemiological perspective. Eisenberg-Guyot, J. & Prins, S. J. In Bhugra, D., Moussaoui, D., & Craig, T. J, editors, Oxford Textbook of Social Psychiatry, pages 195–C22.P129. Oxford University PressOxford, 1 edition, August, 2022. ![The impact of capitalism on mental health: An epidemiological perspective [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Abstract Researchers have documented capitalism’s pernicious effects on the health of the poor and working class since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This chapter summarizes and critically assesses the relationship between capitalism and mental health. It begins by defining capitalism: broadly, a socio-economic system characterized by the private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation and domination of wage labour for profit. Early research on capitalism and mental health is then reviewed, with a focus on the work of Engels and Marx, which described how nineteenth-century capitalist industrialization damaged workers’ mental health by degrading their social, working, and living conditions. Next, quantitative research on capitalism and mental health since the mid-twentieth century is discussed. Although epidemiological research on the topic remains underdeveloped, research consistently finds that capitalism harms workers’ mental health and exacerbates inequities. It does so through at least three mechanisms: alienation; exploitation; and domination. Finally, it is argued that the mental health effects of other axes of power, like racism, sexism, colonialism, and imperialism, cannot be fully understood without attending to their historically contingent forms under capitalism; likewise, capitalism’s mental health effects cannot be understood without attending to these other axes of power.
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title = {The impact of capitalism on mental health: {An} epidemiological perspective},
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Researchers have documented capitalism’s pernicious effects on the health of the poor and working class since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This chapter summarizes and critically assesses the relationship between capitalism and mental health. It begins by defining capitalism: broadly, a socio-economic system characterized by the private ownership of the means of production and the exploitation and domination of wage labour for profit. Early research on capitalism and mental health is then reviewed, with a focus on the work of Engels and Marx, which described how nineteenth-century capitalist industrialization damaged workers’ mental health by degrading their social, working, and living conditions. Next, quantitative research on capitalism and mental health since the mid-twentieth century is discussed. Although epidemiological research on the topic remains underdeveloped, research consistently finds that capitalism harms workers’ mental health and exacerbates inequities. It does so through at least three mechanisms: alienation; exploitation; and domination. Finally, it is argued that the mental health effects of other axes of power, like racism, sexism, colonialism, and imperialism, cannot be fully understood without attending to their historically contingent forms under capitalism; likewise, capitalism’s mental health effects cannot be understood without attending to these other axes of power.},
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month = aug,
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