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Bringing together forty-five experts from the US, Canada and the UK and across a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, this companion is unique in its broad assessment of the ways in which health has become an increasingly politicised concept over the last seventy-five years. It takes a multi-layered view of the development of US health care by examining its political dimensions from historical, cultural, medical, sociological, legal, ethical and environmental perspectives. Chapters consider major health institutions and the federal policies that guide them, but also explore the intersection between health and social movements, the contours of health and illness with respect to race, gender, sexuality, age and region, and the often-conflicted role the US plays in the world when it comes to health governance. The book emphasises the plurality of health experiences, balancing national and transnational perspectives with the lived realities of diverse communities that propel this groundbreaking study far beyond biomedical conceptions of health.
Contents
Introduction: The Political Landscapes of American Health, 1945-2020Martin Halliwell and Sophie A. Jones
Part I. Geography, Community and American Health
1. Health and Inequality in the Postwar MetropolisAndrew R. Highsmith
2. Poverty, Health and Health Care in Rural CommunitiesJessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Cynthia M. Duncan and Kristin Koci
3. The Politics of Immigration Meets the Politics of Health CareBeatrix Hoffman
4. Latinxs and the US Health Care SystemRocío Calvo and Victor Figuereo
5. American Indian Health: The Medicine Wheel versus the Iron Triangle Margaret P. Moss
Part II. Critical Health Conditions: Debates and Histories
6. The Politics of Polio Vaccination in Postwar America, 1950-60: Detractors and DefendersStephen E. Mawdsley
7. Beyond the Cancer WarsS. Løchlann Jain
8. A System in Crisis: US Health Care Politics and the AIDS Epidemic Jonathan Bell
9. The Politics of 'Obesity': Medicalisation, Stigmatisation and Liberation of Fat BodiesKatelyn B. Ferreira and Katrina T. Webber
10. Revising Diagnoses, Reinventing Psychiatry: DSM and Major Depressive DisorderOwen Whooley
Part III. The Politics of Children's Health
11. US Children's Health Insurance: Policy Advocacy and Ideological ConflictAlice Sardell
12. Autism and the Anti-Vaccine MovementKristin Bumiller
13. Diagnosing Deficit, Promising Enhancement: ADHD and Stimulants on ScreenSophie A. Jones
14. On the Possibility of Affirmative Health Care for Transgender ChildrenJules Gill-Peterson
15. Black Infant Mortality: Continuities, Contestations and CareAnnie Menzel and Tia Murray
Part IV. The Institutional Matrix of Health Care
16. The Regional and Racial Politics of Postwar Hospitals Karen Kruse Thomas
17. Health Activism in the 1960s and the Community Health Centre System Thomas J. Ward Jr.
18. The Veterans Administration and PTSD: Challenges and Changes from Vietnam to IraqJenna Pitchford-Hyde
19. The Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Regulation and US Health ServicesDavid Healy
20. The National Institutes of Health: Courting Congress, Creating a Research InfrastructureDavid Cantor
Part V. The White House, Congress and Health Reform
21. Left Out: Health Security and the American Welfare State, 1935-50 Colin Gordon
22. Medicare and Medicaid after the Great Society: Containing Costs, Expanding CoverageJill Quadagno
23. Mental Health, Stigma and Federal Reform in the 1970s and 1990sMartin Halliwell
24. The War on Drugs: Nixon, Reagan, Trump Matthew R. Pembleton
25. Obamacare and its CriticsAlex Waddan
Part VI. Justice, Ethics and American Health
26. Roe v. Wade and the Cultural Politics of Abortion: The Shift from Rights to HealthMary Ziegler
27. Genetics, Health and the Making of America's Triracial Isolates, 1950-80Michell Chresfield
28. The Rhetoric and Politics of American Ageism: Notes from a PandemicJudy Z. Segal
29. Towards a Structural Competency Framework for Addressing US Gun ViolenceJonathan M. Metzl, Philip J. Pettis, Tara McKay and Jennifer L. Piemonte
30. Mass Incarceration and Health Inequity in the United States Johanna T. Crane
Part VII. Public Health and Global Health
31. Occupational and Environmental Health in Twentieth-Century AmericaDavid Rosner and Gerald Markowitz
32. Environmental Health beyond the State: Thinking through the 1970sJennifer Thomson
33. Bioterrorism, Pandemic and the American Public Melanie Armstrong
34. Health Internationalism in the US and Beyond Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore M. Brown
35. Pandemics and the Politics of Planetary HealthPriscilla Wald
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