Edinburgh companion to the politics of American health / edited by Martin Halliwell and Sophie A. Jones.

Companion to the politics of American health

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]

xvi, 644 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.