...Chapter 1 discusses how authorities in San Francisco and New York City pursued the closure of gay bathhouses during the HIV/AIDS crisis. Within this particular episode of queer history and public health policy, the rhetoric of dignity proves to be at its most seductive. During the early years...

...In chapter 2, in a public health context of the transformation of HIV into a chronic, manageable condition rather than a “death sentence”—at least for those who can access and respond to available medication—we identify contemporary circumstances that may provide some potential to reclaim queer...

... development and de-politicized public health policies that may follow from our anti-stigma principle. And we hope that the work of this book—our examination of biases in public health, our contrasting of cultural representations, and our interpretation of how and why the Thirteenth Amendment is a strong...

...Chapter 1 tells the story of Mary Calderone’s childhood as the daughter of photographer Edward Steichen, her childhood sexual traumas, her difficult path to medical school and public health, and the way she reframed the story of her childhood experiences to motivate and explain her lifelong...

...Reproductive rights and public health in America owe a tremendous debt to Margaret Sanger (1879–1966) and Lillian Wald (1887–1940). These two women of the Progressive Era, the former of Irish and the latter of Jewish descent, instrumentally informed the course of the interrelated fields...

... contours of Foucault’s analysis about the issue of public health, and more particularly with the approach to smallpox. Bible certainty Foucault Michel France God leprosy nodal governance norm plaque risk sécurité securitization smallpox war Boccaccio Giovanni Middle Ages Public Prosecution...

..., demonstrating why attention to food's social meaning is important to effective public health policy, particularly actions that focus on behavioral change and school food reforms. The book provides narratives of the everyday life of youth, highlighting young people's voices and perspectives and the places where...

... public health and child welfare. By the 1910s, municipal and state governments had developed compulsory birth registration systems that provided a new generation of Americans with documentary proof of their ages in the form of birth certificates. Because the issuing of birth certificates grew out...

... environment where health is linked to lifestyle and individual subjectivity. In the “new public health” environment, state intervention appears permissible only in the face of dire, external epidemic treat. Prevention efforts are limited to attempted manipulations of individual lifestyle choices. bacteriology...

...This book explores the evolution of public health crises and solutions in America. Focusing on the issue of the “fall” of the medical profession, it assesses the state of medicine and health in the years before the loss of public confidence in orthodox medicine, which undermined the significance...

...International law recognizes public health protection as a human right that states are obligated to protect. Government efforts to fulfill that right may at times justify the restriction of individual liberty, but because of the perceived association between disease and immigration, highly coercive...

... cleanup to real estate development left non-gentrifying neighborhoods with no mechanism for remediating contaminated properties. By outsourcing the cleanup of contaminated properties to private investors, brown gentrification thus subordinated public health to property values. Moreover, it redistributed...

... system, or a form of corruption? It argues that unofficial payments for medical care within the public health-care systems of the postcommunist region are an example of an informal practice that is in the main detrimental to the public good and reform efforts. health care system in postcommunist...

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... by foreshadowing future “child-saving” efforts by reformers committed to constructing adequate systems of public health and child welfare institutions. Rooted in the historical literature and primary sources, the book is a key resource in our understanding of origins of modern ideas about children and youth...

... and early 2000s, policymakers in Puerto Rico sold off most of the island's public health facilities and enrolled the poor, elderly and disabled into for-profit managed care plans. These reforms were supposed to promote efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and high-quality care. Despite the optimistic promises...

...The collected essays in To Fix or to Heal examine the persistence of reductionistic approaches to medicine and public health. Despite widespread discontent with such approaches and good reasons to turn toward a more “holistic” model, an individualistic and mechanistic approach has survived decades...

... and unequal treatment afforded African Americans over eighty years and looks at the factors that have made them vulnerable, including their socioeconomic status and race. It presents case studies to illustrate how environmental hazards develop into public health threats and how their effects are either...

...Drawing on travelogues, legal documents, public health reports, descriptions of Chinatowns, Yellow Peril fiction, and racial iconography, this chapter traces a long-standing mode of racial discourse that has framed Asiatic bodies and practices as embodiments of modernity’s noxious atmospheres...

..., it questions the ostensible social and public health benefits that accompany the state regulation of prostitution in Chiapas. It also considers the relationship between commercial sex and the state within the context of neoliberalism. By regulating and controlling prostitutes, the state hoped to discipline...