The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health

ISBN-13: 9781474450966 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 656 str.

Martin Halliwell;Sophie A. Jones

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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.

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Introduction: The Political Landscapes of American Health, 1945-2020, Martin Halliwell and Sophie A. Jones; Part I. Geography, Community and American Health; 1. Health and Inequality in the Postwar Metropolis, Andrew R. Highsmith; 2. Poverty, Health and Health Care in Rural Communities, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad, Cynthia M. Duncan and Kristin Koci; 3. The Politics of Immigration Meets the Politics of Health Care, Beatrix Hoffman; 4. Latinxs and the US Health Care System, Rocio 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 Defenders, Stephen E. Mawdsley; 7. Beyond the Cancer Wars, S. Lochlann 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 Bodies, Katelyn B. Ferreira and Katrina T. Webber; 10. Revising Diagnoses, Reinventing Psychiatry: DSM and Major Depressive Disorder, Owen Whooley; Part III. The Politics of Children’s Health; 11. US Children’s Health Insurance: Policy Advocacy and Ideological Conflict, Alice Sardell; 12. Autism and the Anti-Vaccine Movement, Kristin Bumiller; 13. Diagnosing Deficit, Promising Enhancement: ADHD and Stimulants on Screen, Sophie A. Jones; 14. On the Possibility of Affirmative Health Care for Transgender Children, Jules Gill-Peterson; 15. Black Infant Mortality: Continuities, Contestations and Care, Annie 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 Iraq, Jenna Pitchford-Hyde; 19. The Pharmaceutical Industry, Drug Regulation and US Health Services, David Healy; 20. The National Institutes of Health: Courting Congress, Creating a Research Infrastructure, David 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 Coverage, Jill Quadagno; 23. Mental Health, Stigma and Federal Reform in the 1970s and 1990s, Martin Halliwell; 24. The War on Drugs: Nixon, Reagan, Trump, Matthew R. Pembleton; 25. Obamacare and its Critics, Alex Waddan; Part VI. Justice, Ethics and American Health; 26. Roe v. Wade and the Cultural Politics of Abortion: The Shift from Rights to Health, Mary Ziegler; 27. Genetics, Health and the Making of America’s Triracial Isolates, 1950-80, Michell Chresfield; 28. The Rhetoric and Politics of American Ageism: Notes from a Pandemic, Judy Z. Segal; 29. Towards a Structural Competency Framework for Addressing US Gun Violence, Jonathan 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 America, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz; 32. Environmental Health beyond the State: Thinking through the 1970s, Jennifer 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 Health, Priscilla Wald; General Bibliography, Biographies, Index.