Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum: 2022-08-25
Mått: 170 x 244 x 56 mm
Vikt: 1 288 g
Format: Inbunden
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 664
Förlag: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781474450966

Utforska kategorier

Amerikas historia

Mer om författaren

Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Thought and Culture at the University of Leicester. His recent books include The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health (2022) and Transformed States: Medicine, Biotechnology, and American Culture, 1990–2020 (2025). Sophie A. Jones is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Gender Studies at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.

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This volume is a timely reminder that American health and health care have always been political. Drawing from experts across the social sciences and humanities, the collection offers an impressive range of topics that together underscore the urgency of centering not only the social but the political determinants of health, broadly imagined. It will undoubtedly prove valuable to historians, literary critics, rhetoricians, political scientists, sociologists and anthropologists for research and classroom adoption for many years to come.

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