I can sympathize with Louis Proyect's lament concerning the lack of good available work on the Argentinian situation from a radical or Marxian perspective in English. But one good recent work at least should be mentioned:
Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies: Poverty, Disease, and Underdevelopment, by Eileen Stillwaggon (342 pp, with illus, $50, ISBN 0-8135-2493-8, paper, $23, ISBN 0-8135-2494-6, New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1998.) Despite the title, the book is about Argentina. Despite the fact that it focuses on health and health care issues, it does a good job of dealing with the problems caused by structural adjustment policies generally, a main thesis of the book being that socioeconomic factors are at the root of the health crisis. And despite the lack of an explicitly Marxist approach, I think it is fair to say that the book is coming from a radical perspective. There are a number of on-line reviews for those wanting a summary and outline. But I'd be interested in Louis dedicating one of his 'columns' to this book. mat
