Health rights are civil rights peace and justice activism in Los Angeles, 1963-1978

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

Author/creator	Loyd, Jenna M., 1973-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Description	xv, 344 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)	Health care reform--California --Los Angeles --History --20th century. Public health--California --Los Angeles --History --20th century. Social movements--California --Los Angeles --History --20th century. Social justice--California --Los Angeles --History --20th century. Poor--Civil rights --California --Los Angeles --History --20th century. Human rights--California --Los Angeles --History --20th century. Social change--California --Los Angeles --History --20th century. Cold War--Social aspects --California --Los Angeles --History --20th century. Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions --20th century. Los Angeles (Calif.)--Politics and government --20th century.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-321) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2013028368
ISBN	9780816676507 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
ISBN	9780816676514 (paperback : alkaline paper)

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