The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health / / ed. by Martin Halliwell.
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 periodBrings together 45 experts from the US, Can...
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Table of Contents:
- 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