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    All Health Politics Is Local

All Health Politics Is Local

Merlin Chowkwanyun
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      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. He shows how racial uprisings in the 1960s catalyzed the creation of new medical infrastructure for those long denied it, what local authorities did to curb air pollution so toxic that it made residents choke and cry, how community health activists and bureaucrats fought over who'd control facilities long run by insular elites, and what a national coal boom did to community ecology and health. In a country riven by regional differences, All Health Politics Is Local shatters the notion of a shared national health agenda. It shows that health has always been political and shaped not just by formal policy but also by grassroots community battles.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Merlin Chowkwanyun EAN: 9781469667676 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 231 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of North Carolina Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-07-05 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Health Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Environmental factors, Health systems and services, History of the Americas

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      Merlin Chowkwanyun is Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
      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. He shows how racial uprisings in the 1960s catalyzed the creation of new medical infrastructure for those long denied it, what local authorities did to curb air pollution so toxic that it made residents choke and cry, how community health activists and bureaucrats fought over who'd control facilities long run by insular elites, and what a national coal boom did to community ecology and health. In a country riven by regional differences, All Health Politics Is Local shatters the notion of a shared national health agenda. It shows that health has always been political and shaped not just by formal policy but also by grassroots community battles.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Merlin Chowkwanyun EAN: 9781469667676 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 231 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of North Carolina Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-07-05 CITY: GENRE: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, MEDICAL / Health Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      United States of America, USA, Politics and government, Environmental factors, Health systems and services, History of the Americas

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      Merlin Chowkwanyun is Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

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