| Description |
1 online resource (656 pages) : 20 black and white illustrations |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Political Landscapes of American Health, 1945-2020 -- Part I: Geography, Community and American Health -- Introduction -- 1 Health and Inequality in the Postwar Metropolis -- 2 Poverty, Health and Health Care in Rural Communities -- 3 The Politics of Immigration Meets the Politics of Health Care -- 4 Latinxs and the US Health Care System -- 5 American Indian Health: The Medicine Wheel versus the Iron Triangle -- Part II: Critical Health Conditions: Debates and Histories -- Introduction -- 6 The Politics of Polio Vaccination in Postwar America, 1950-60: Detractors and Defenders -- 7 Beyond the Cancer Wars -- 8 A System in Crisis: US Health Care Politics and the AIDS Epidemic -- 9 The Politics of 'Obesity': Medicalization, Stigmatization and Liberation of Fat Bodies -- 10 Revising Diagnoses, Reinventing Psychiatry: DSM and Major Depressive Disorder -- Part III: The Politics of Children's Health -- Introduction -- 11 US Children's Health Insurance: Policy Advocacy and Ideological Conflict -- 12 Autism and the Anti-Vaccine Movement -- 13 Diagnosing Deficit, Promising Enhancement: ADHD and Stimulants on Screen -- 14 On the Possibility of Affirmative Health Care for Transgender Children -- 15 Black Infant Mortality: Continuities, Contestations and Care -- Part IV: The Institutional Matrix of Health Care -- Introduction -- 16 The Regional and Racial Politics of Postwar Hospitals -- 17 Health Activism in the 1960s and the Community Health Center System -- 18 The Veterans Administration and PTSD: Challenges and Changes from Vietnam to Iraq -- 19 The Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Regulation and US Health Services -- 20 The National Institutes of Health: Courting Congress, Creating a Research Infrastructure -- Part V: The White House, Congress and Health Reform -- Introduction -- 21 Left Out: Health Security and the American Welfare State, 1935-50 -- 22 Medicare and Medicaid after the Great Society: Containing Costs, Expanding Coverage -- 23 Mental Health, Stigma and Federal Reform in the 1970s and 1990s -- 24 The War on Drugs: Nixon, Reagan, Trump -- 25 Obamacare and Its Critics -- Part VI: Justice, Ethics and American Health -- Introduction -- 26 Roe v. Wade and the Cultural Politics of Abortion: The Shift from Rights to Health -- 27 Genetics, Health and the Making of America's Triracial Isolates, 1950-80 -- 28 The Rhetoric and Politics of American Ageism: Notes from a Pandemic -- 29 Towards a Structural Competency Framework for Addressing US Gun Violence -- 30 Mass Incarceration and Health Inequity in the United States -- Part VII: Public Health and Global Health -- Introduction -- 31 Occupational and Environmental Health in Twentieth-Century America -- 32 Environmental Health beyond the State: Thinking through the 1970s -- 33 Bioterrorism, Pandemic and the American Public -- 34 Health Internationalism in the US and Beyond -- 35 Pandemics and the Politics of Planetary Health -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Examines the diverse, and often conflicted, political status of health in the United States from World War II to Covid-19Explores the histories, cultures, policies and technologies of American health and medicine as they have developed over a 75-year period. Brings together 45 experts from the US, Canada and the UK working across the fields of medicine, health policy, political and social history, political science, environmental studies, law, and cultural studies. Uses the lenses of class, poverty, race, gender, sexuality and locality to study the concepts, policies and lived realities of U.S. healthcare and medical treatment |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed February 22, 2023) |
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Medical care -- United States -- History
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Medical policy -- United States -- History
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HISTORY -- North America.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Medical care
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Medical policy
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United States
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History
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Electronic book
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Halliwell, Martin, editor
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Jones, Sophie A., editor
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Armstrong, Melanie, contributor.
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Bell, Jonathan, contributor.
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Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, contributor.
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Brown, Theodore M., contributor.
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Bumiller, Kristin, contributor.
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Calvo, Rocío, contributor.
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Cantor, David, contributor.
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Chresfield, Michell, contributor.
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Crane, Johanna T., contributor.
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Duncan, Cynthia M., contributor.
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Ferreira, Katelyn B., contributor.
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Figuereo, Victor, contributor.
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Gill-Peterson, Jules, contributor.
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Gordon, Colin, contributor.
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Halliwell, Martin, contributor.
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Halliwell, Martin, editor
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Healy, David, contributor.
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Highsmith, Andrew R., contributor.
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Hoffman, Beatrix, contributor.
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Jones, Sophie A., contributor.
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Koci, Kristen, contributor.
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Kruse Thomas, Karen, contributor.
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Løchlann Jain, S., contributor.
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Markowitz, Gerald, contributor.
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Mawdsley, Stephen E., contributor.
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McKay, Tara, contributor.
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Menzel, Annie, contributor.
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Metzl, Jonathan M., contributor.
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Moss, Margaret P., contributor.
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Murray, Tia, contributor.
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Pembleton, Matthew R., contributor.
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Pettis, Philip J., contributor.
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Piemonte, Jennifer L., contributor.
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Pitchford-Hyde, Jenna, contributor.
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Quadagno, Jill, contributor.
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Rosner, David, contributor.
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Sardell, Alice, contributor.
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Segal, Judy Z., contributor.
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Thomson, Jennifer, contributor.
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Ulrich-Schad, Jessica D., contributor.
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Waddan, Alex, contributor.
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Wald, Priscilla, contributor.
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Ward, Thomas J., contributor.
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Webber, Katrina T., contributor.
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Whooley, Owen, contributor.
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Ziegler, Mary, contributor.
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| ISBN |
1474450989 |
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9781474450980 |
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9781474450997 |
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1474450997 |
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