All Health Politics Is Local: Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health

Author/Contributor(s):	Chowkwanyun, Merlin
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	07/05/2022
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments-all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In 'All Health Politics Is Local', Merlin Chowkwanyun shifts our focus, taking us to four very different places-New York City, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and central Appalachia-to experience a national story through a regional lens"--