Health rights are civil rights [electronic resource] : peace and justice activism in Los Angeles, 1963/1978 / Jenna M. Loyd.
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TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN: - 9781452941448
- 1452941440
- Cold War -- Social aspects -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Social change -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Human rights -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Urban poor -- Civil rights -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Social justice -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Social movements -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Public health -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Health care reform -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- 362.109794/94 23
- RA395.A3 L69 2013
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.
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