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1 online resource (x, 336 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Studies in social medicine |
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Studies in social medicine.
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Merlin Chowkwanyun is Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health |
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Print version record |
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Medical care -- Political aspects -- United States
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Environmental health -- Political aspects -- United States
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Community health services -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy
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Medical care -- Political aspects
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Environmental health -- Political aspects
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Community health services
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United States
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Electronic book
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Project Muse. distributor.
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| LC no. |
2021059032 |
| ISBN |
9781469667683 |
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1469667681 |
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9781469667690 |
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146966769X |
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