Anna Kirkland is the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury and Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood.

“A well-researched and compelling account of how anti-discrimination law has been systematically weakened at different levels of the U.S. health care system. This book represents a solid contribution to our understanding of health policy, and would be of interest to students of health policy, public health, sociology of law and health, medical anthropology, as well as gender, women’s, and sexuality studies.”

• Contents  Acknowledgments  Introduction: The Hope of Health Care Civil Rights1. Health Care Civil Rights: Set Up to Fail2. How Health Care Civil Rights Became Patient Experience3. How Insurance Companies Broker Health Care Civil Rights4. How Conservatives Oppose Health Care Civil Rights5. Realizing Health Care Civil RightsConclusion: How to Strengthen Health Care Civil Rights  NotesReferencesIndex

Anna Kirkland is the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury and Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood.

“A well-researched and compelling account of how anti-discrimination law has been systematically weakened at different levels of the U.S. health care system. This book represents a solid contribution to our understanding of health policy, and would be of interest to students of health policy, public health, sociology of law and health, medical anthropology, as well as gender, women’s, and sexuality studies.”

• Contents  Acknowledgments  Introduction: The Hope of Health Care Civil Rights1. Health Care Civil Rights: Set Up to Fail2. How Health Care Civil Rights Became Patient Experience3. How Insurance Companies Broker Health Care Civil Rights4. How Conservatives Oppose Health Care Civil Rights5. Realizing Health Care Civil RightsConclusion: How to Strengthen Health Care Civil Rights  NotesReferencesIndex

Anna Kirkland is the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury and Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood.

“A well-researched and compelling account of how anti-discrimination law has been systematically weakened at different levels of the U.S. health care system. This book represents a solid contribution to our understanding of health policy, and would be of interest to students of health policy, public health, sociology of law and health, medical anthropology, as well as gender, women’s, and sexuality studies.”

• Contents  Acknowledgments  Introduction: The Hope of Health Care Civil Rights1. Health Care Civil Rights: Set Up to Fail2. How Health Care Civil Rights Became Patient Experience3. How Insurance Companies Broker Health Care Civil Rights4. How Conservatives Oppose Health Care Civil Rights5. Realizing Health Care Civil RightsConclusion: How to Strengthen Health Care Civil Rights  NotesReferencesIndex