American health crisis : one hundred years of panic, planning, and politics / Martin Halliwell

Introduction. 1918 : Woodrow Wilson, crisis, and the arc of public health -- Disaster : Mississippi flood, Buffalo Creek, hurricane Katrina -- Poverty : dust bowl, urban ghetto, Indian reservation -- Pollution : nuclear fallout, water contamination, climate change -- Virus : influenza, polio, HIV/AIDS -- Care : postwar hospitals, community action, vet centers -- Drugs : Methadone, Diazepam, Fentanyl -- Conclusion. 2018 : Obama, Trump, and the future of health citizenship.

"Despite enormous advances in medical science and public health education over the last century, access to health care remains a dominant issue in American life. U.S. health care is often hailed as the best in the world, yet the public health emergencies of today very often echo the public health emergencies of yesterday: the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19 and COVID-19; the displacement of the Dust Bowl and the havoc of Hurricane Maria; the Reagan administration's antipathy toward the AIDS epidemic and the lack of accountability during the water crisis in Flint, Michigan"--.

Medienart:

Buch

Erscheinungsjahr:

[2021]

© 2021

Erschienen:

Oakland, California: University of California Press ; 2021

© 2021

Weitere Ausgaben:

Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe: American health crisis

Sprache:

Englisch

Weiterer Titel:

Abweichender Titelzusatz auf dem losen Schutzumschlag: 100 years of panic, planning, and politics

Beteiligte Personen:

Halliwell, Martin, 1970- [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

978-0-520-37940-4

BKL:

15.87 / USA

44.10 / Gesundheitswesen: Allgemeines

Themen:

Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen
Emergency management
Geschichte
Gesundheitspolitik
Gesundheitswesen
Medical policy
Public Health
Public health
USA

RVK:

RVK Klassifikation

Anmerkungen:

Literaturverzeichnis Seite 387-394

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Umfang:

xiii, 405 Seiten ; 24 cm

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

1736822160