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Author Loyd, Jenna M., 1973-

Title Health rights are civil rights : peace and justice activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 / Jenna M. Loyd
Published Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 344 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: War, American exceptionalism, and the place of health activism -- Part I. Desegregating health, transforming health care -- Urban geopolitics and the fight for "equal justice in health care now" -- Watts, the War on Poverty, and the promise of community control -- Part II. Urban crisis -- Economic conversion, survival, and race in "Dodge City" -- Mothering underground : the home in women's welfare and peace organizing -- The war at home : forging interracial solidarities for peace and freedom -- Part III. Cold War body politics -- Population scares and antiviolence roots of reproductive justice -- Where is health? : the place of the clinic in social change -- "Property rights over human life" : taxes and austerity in the divided city -- Epilogue: The right to health meets the right to the city
Summary Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women's movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems and structural violence, working to establish the principle that health is a right
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Health care reform -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Social movements -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Social justice -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Urban poor -- Civil rights -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Human rights -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Social change -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Cold War -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
Health Care Reform -- history
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Health care reform
Human rights
Politics and government
Public health
Social aspects
Social change
Social conditions
Social justice
Social movements
SUBJECT Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
Los Angeles https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D015141
Subject California -- Los Angeles
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781452941448
1452941440
9781452941462
1452941467