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Author:

Loyd, Jenna M., 1973-

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Minnesota Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xv, 344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Health care reform--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Public health--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Social movements--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Social justice--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Urban poor--History--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Human rights--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Social change--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Cold War--History--Los Angeles--Los Angeles--History--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government--20th century.
Health Care Reform--history--Los Angeles.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0816676518 (paperback : alkaline paper)
9780816676514 (paperback : alkaline paper)
081667650X (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9780816676507 (hardcover : alkaline paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)862222030

LCCN:

2013028368

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)