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All health politics is local : community battles for medical care and environmental health
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Title
All health politics is local : community battles for medical care and environmental health / Merlin Chowkwanyun.
ISBN
9781469667669
1469667665
9781469667676
1469667673
9781469667683
9781469667690
Publication
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]
Physical Description
x, 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Summary
"Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments-all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In 'All Health Politics Is Local', Merlin Chowkwanyun shifts our focus, taking us to four very different places-New York City, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and central Appalachia-to experience a national story through a regional lens"-- Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 26, 2022
Series
Studies in social medicine
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-324) and index.
Contents
Localism and the ordeal of community health
New York: localism, private-public boundaries, and the transformation of the health care sector
Los Angeles: two cheers for air pollution control: triumphs and limits of the midcentury industrial-ecological accord
Los Angeles: health politics and the fire next time
Cleveland: health innovation, health citadels, health ghettoes: progress and deprivation in Midwestern medicine
Central Appalachia: powering America on other people's bodies: strip mining, environmental health, and human suffering
Central Appalachia: pork-barrel medicine and poverty: devolution and the problem of elite capture
Localism is dead
long live localism! Or: all health politics is local.
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