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Health rights are civil rights : peace and justice activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 / / Jenna M. Loyd



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Autore: Loyd Jenna M. <1973-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Health rights are civil rights : peace and justice activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978 / / Jenna M. Loyd Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, Minnesota : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
Disciplina: 362.109794/94
Soggetto topico: Health care reform - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Public health - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Social movements - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Social justice - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Urban poor - Civil rights - California - Los Angeles - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: War, American exceptionalism, and the place of health activism -- Part I. Desegregating health, transforming health care -- Urban geopolitics and the fight for "equal justice in health care now" -- Watts, the War on Poverty, and the promise of community control -- Part II. Urban crisis -- Economic conversion, survival, and race in "Dodge City" -- Mothering underground : the home in women's welfare and peace organizing -- The war at home : forging interracial solidarities for peace and freedom -- Part III. Cold War body politics -- Population scares and antiviolence roots of reproductive justice -- Where is health? : the place of the clinic in social change -- "Property rights over human life" : taxes and austerity in the divided city -- Epilogue: The right to health meets the right to the city.
Sommario/riassunto: Health Rights Are Civil Rights tells the story of the important place of health in struggles for social change in Los Angeles in the 1960's and 1970's. Jenna M. Loyd describes how Black freedom, antiwar, welfare rights, and women's movement activists formed alliances to battle oppressive health systems and structural violence, working to establish the principle that health is a right.
Titolo autorizzato: Health rights are civil rights  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4144-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464816803321
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