The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health / edited by Martin Halliwell and Sophie A. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Halliwell, Martin, editor.

Jones, Sophie A., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care--United States--History.

Medical care.

Medical policy--United States--History.

Medical policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 644 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This collection examines the diverse, and often conflicted, political status of health in the USA from World War II to Covid-19. It moves beyond biomedical conceptions by using the lenses of class, poverty, race, gender, sexuality and locality to study the concepts, policies and lived realities of U.S. healthcare and medicine.

Contents:

Introduction: The Political Landscapes of American Health, 1945-2020 / Martin Halliwell and Sophie A. Jones

Health and Inequality in the Postwar Metropolis / Andrew R. Highsmith

Poverty, Health and Health Care in Rural Communities / Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Cynthia M. Duncan and Kristen Koci

The Politics of Immigration Meets the Politics of Health Care / Beatrix Hoffman

Latinxs and the US Health Care System / Rocío Calvo and Victor Figuereo

American Indian Health: The Medicine Wheel versus the Iron Triangle / Margaret P. Moss

The Politics of Polio Vaccination in Postwar America, 1950-60: Detractors and Defenders / Stephen E. Mawdsley

Beyond the Cancer Wars / S. Løchlann Jain

A System in Crisis: US Health Care Politics and the AIDS Epidemic / Jonathan Bell

The Politics of 'Obesity': Medicalization, Stigmatization and Liberation of Fat Bodies / Katelyn B. Ferreira and Katrina T. Webber

Revising Diagnoses, Reinventing Psychiatry: DSM and Major Depressive Disorder / Owen Whooley

US Children's Health Insurance: Policy Advocacy and Ideological Conflict / Alice Sardell

Autism and the Anti-Vaccine Movement / Kristin Bumiller

Diagnosing Deficit, Promising Enhancement: ADHD and Stimulants on Screen / Sophie A. Jones

On the Possibility of Affirmative Health Care for Transgender Children / Jules Gill-Peterson

Black Infant Mortality: Continuities, Contestations and Care / Tia Murray and Annie Menzel

The Regional and Racial Politics of Postwar Hospitals / Karen Kruse Thomas

Health Activism in the 1960s and the Community Health Centre System / Thomas J. Ward Jr.

The Veterans Administration and PTSD: Challenges and Changes from Vietnam to Iraq / Jenna Pitchford-Hyde

The Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Regulation and US Health Services / David Healy

The National Institutes of Health: Courting Congress, Creating a Research Infrastructure / David Cantor

Left Out: Health Security and the American Welfare State, 1935-50 / Colin Gordon

Medicare and Medicaid after the Great Society: Containing Costs, Expanding Coverage / Jill Quadagno

Mental Health, Stigma and Federal Reform in the 1970s and 1990s / Martin Halliwell

The War on Drugs: Nixon, Reagan, Trump / Matthew R. Pembleton

Obamacare and its Critics / Alex Waddan

Roe v. Wade and the Cultural Politics of Abortion: The Shift from Rights to Health / Mary Ziegler

Genetics, Health and the Making of America's Triracial Isolates, 1950-80 / Michell Chresfield

The Rhetoric and Politics of American Ageism: Notes from a Pandemic / Judy Z. Segal

Towards a Structural Competency Framework for Addressing US Gun Violence / Jonathan M. Metzl, Philip J. Pettis, Tara McKay and Jennifer L. Piemonte

Mass Incarceration and Health Inequity in the United States / Johanna T. Crane

Occupational and Environmental Health in Twentieth-Century America / David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Environmental Health beyond the State: Thinking through the 1970s / Jennifer Thomson

Bioterrorism, Pandemic and the American Public / Melanie Armstrong

Health Internationalism in the US and Beyond / Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown

Pandemics and the Politics of Planetary Health / Priscilla Wald.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 23, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474450997

1474450997

9781474450980

1474450989

OCLC:

1343103514