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Public Health and the Ameri...
Explores the importance of public health for understanding the transformation of American power, both domestically and internationally, over the past century
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monografia Rebiun37783425 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun37783425 m o d | cr#cnu|||||||| 241214s2024 stka o 001 0 eng d 9781399519366 1399519360 9781399519359 1399519352 10.1515/9781399519359 doi UAM 991008385812204211 MiAaPQ eng rda pn MiAaPQ MiAaPQ n-us--- stk GB-SCT POL003000 bisacsh 614.51809041 23 Public Health and the American State edited by Gaetano Di Tommaso, Dario Fazzi, and Giles Scott-Smith First edition Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2024] Edinburgh Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2024 1 online resource (265 pages) 1 online resource (265 pages) Text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes index Intro -- List of Illustrations -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Beyond Control of Local Authorities: The Spanish Influenza Epidemic and Federal Supervision of Public Health -- 2 The United States in Two Pandemics: The American Century and the Costs of American Culture -- 3 The Politics of Public Health: Disease and Medical Authority in Twentieth-Century America -- 4 From the 'Lung Block' to the 'China Virus': Public Health, Xenophobia and US Identity Formation over the American Century -- 5 Oil, Progress and Public Health in the Early Twentieth Century -- 6 Simkins v. Cone and the Hospital Desegregation Movement in the Long Twentieth Century -- 7 Better Dead than Red, or Not? Nuclear Physics and Public Health at the Dawn of the Cold War -- 8 Fighting the Cold War and Variola: The American Commitment to Smallpox Eradication -- 9 Brother's Brother Foundation in Costa Rica: A Case Study in Public-Private Partnerships and Global Health in the American Century -- 10 AIDS and Reproductive Rights in the American Century -- 11 The Making of Entitled Consumers: Neoliberal Ideas in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 -- 12 'Real Men Wear Masks': COVID-19 and the Crisis of American Masculinity -- Conclusion -- Index Explores the importance of public health for understanding the transformation of American power, both domestically and internationally, over the past century COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919 Medical policy- United States- History- 20th century Di Tommaso, Gaetano editor Fazzi, Dario editor Scott-Smith, Giles editor 9781399519335 1399519336