Common Enemies

Disease Campaigns in America

Rachel Kahn Best (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2019
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-091841-5 (ISBN)

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For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Rachel Kahn Best asks why disease campaigns have dominated a century of American philanthropy and health policy and how the fixation on diseases shapes efforts to improve lives. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in an unprecedented history of disease politics, Best shows that to achieve consensus, disease campaigns tend to neglect stigmatized diseases and avoid controversial goals. But despite their limitations, disease campaigns do not crowd out efforts to solve other problems. Instead, they teach Americans to give and volunteer and build up public health infrastructure, bringing us together to solve problems and improve our lives.

Rachel Kahn Best is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She studies political responses to social problems, focusing on how advocacy and culture shape whose concerns are addressed and whose are ignored.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Charitable Crusades
Chapter 2 Disease Constituencies
Chapter 3 Deserving Patients
Chapter 4 Ranking Diseases
Chapter 5 Budget Battles
Chapter 6 Publicity Over Prevention, Cures Over Care
Conclusion
Appendix Data and Methods
References

Erscheinungsdatum	23.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	21 black and white line drawings
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	231 x 155 mm
Gewicht	363 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-091841-1 / 0190918411
ISBN-13	978-0-19-091841-5 / 9780190918415
Zustand	Neuware