Verfasst von: | Halliwell, Martin [VerfasserIn] |
Titel: | American health crisis |
Titelzusatz: | one hundred years of panic, planning, and politics |
Verf.angabe: | Martin Halliwell |
Verlagsort: | Oakland, California |
Verlag: | University of California Press |
E-Jahr: | 2021 |
Jahr: | [2021] |
Umfang: | xiii, 405 Seiten |
Format: | 24 cm |
Fussnoten: | Literaturverzeichnis Seite 387-394 ; Mit Register |
Weitere Titel: | Abweichender Titelzusatz auf dem losen Schutzumschlag: 100 years of panic, planning, and politics |
ISBN: | 978-0-520-37940-4 |
Abstract: | 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"-- |
URL: | Inhaltsverzeichnis: https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780520379404.pdf |
Schlagwörter: | (z)Geschichte / (s)Gesundheitswesen / (s)Public Health / (s)Gesundheitspolitik / (s)Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen / (g)USA |
Sprache: | eng |
Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Halliwell, Martin: American health crisis. - Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021] |(DLC)2020037072 |
| Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Halliwell, Martin, 1970 - : American health crisis. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (421 pages) |
RVK-Notation: | XC 5300 |
K10plus-PPN: | 1736822160 |