The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health

Examines the diverse, and often conflicted, political status of health in the United States from World War II to Covid-19 Explores the histories, cultures, policies and technologies of American health and medicine as they have developed over a 75-year periodBrings together 45 experts from the US, Canada and the UK working across the fields of medicine, health policy, political and social history, political science, environmental studies, law, and cultural studiesUses the lenses of class, poverty