All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health Chowkwanyun Merlin
Health 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…
Specifikacia All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health Chowkwanyun Merlin
Health 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 show how health activists battled over control of medical infrastructure and communities fought to stave off new environmental health risks.All Health Politics Is Local shatters the notion of a single national health agenda. Health is and has always been political, shaped both by formal policy at the highest levels and by grassroots community battles far below.