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Health rights are civil rights

Loyd, Jenna M., 1973-

Health rights are civil rights peace and justice activism in Los Angeles, 1963/1978 / [electronic resource] : Jenna M. Loyd. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9781452941448 1452941440


Cold War--Social aspects--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Social change--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Human rights--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Urban poor--Civil rights--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Social justice--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Social movements--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Public health--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.
Health care reform--History--California--Los Angeles--20th century.


Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.


Electronic books.

RA395.A3 / L69 2013

362.109794/94