Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care

Herausgeber: Banaszak-Holl, Jane C; Zald, Mayer N; Levitsky, Sandra R

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Produktbeschreibung

Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care is the first collection of essays to examine dynamics of change in health care institutions through the lens of contemporary theory and research on collective action. Bringing together scholars from medicine, health management and policy, history, sociology, and political science, the book conceptualizes the American health care system as being organized around multiple institutions-including the state, biomedical fields, professions, and health delivery organizations. By shifting attention toward the organizing structures and political logics of these institutions, the essays in this book illuminate the diversity in both sites of health-related collective action and the actors seeking transformations in health institutions. The book considers health-related social movements at four distinct levels of analysis. At the most macro level, essays analyze social movements that seek changes from the state in the regulation, financing, and distribution of health resources, including private and public insurance coverage, service delivery, and clinical research. A second set of essays considers field-level analyses of institutional changes in such wide-ranging areas as public health, bio-ethics, long-term care, abortion, and AIDS services. A third set of essays examines the relationship between social movements and professions, examining the "boundary crossing that occurs when professionals participate in social movements or seek changes in existing professions and the health practices they endorse. A final set of essays analyzes the cultural dominance of the medical model for addressing health problems in the United States and its implications for collective attempts to establish the legitimacy of particular issues, framings, and political actors in health care reform.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780195388305
• ISBN-10: 0195388305
• Artikelnr.: 27389034

Autorenporträt

JB: Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health; Research Associate Professor in the Institute of Gerontology, School of Medicine; Adjunct Associate Professor of Organizational Studies, College of Literature, Science and Arts, University of Michigan SL: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan MZ: Professor (Emeritus) Sociology, Social Work and Management, University of Michigan. He has authored or edited twenty-one books, and more than seventy articles. Among other honors, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1.: Social Movements and the Transformation of U.S. Health Care:
Introduction
* --Sandra R. Levitsky and Jane Banaszak-Holl
* Section I: Transformation of State Financing and Regulation
* 2.: The Limitations of Social Movements as Catalysts for Change
* --Constance A. Nathanson
* 3.: The Challenge of Universal Health Care: Social Movements,
Presidential
* Leadership, and Private Power
* --Beatrix Hoffman
* 4.: The Consumer-Directed Health Care Movement: Defining the Limits
of Democratic Representation
* --Jill Quadagno and J. Brandon McKelvey
* 5.: Mobilizing for Reform: Cohesion in State Healthcare Coalitions
* --Holly Jarman and Scott L. Greer
* 6.: The Strength of Diverse Ties: Multiple Hybridity in the Politics
of Inclusion and Difference in U.S. Biomedical Research
* --Steven Epstein
* Section II. The Reorientation of Institutional Fields
* 7.: Field Analysis and Policy Ethnography in the Study of Health
Social Movements
* --Phil Brown, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Stephen Zavestoski, Laura
Senier, Rebecca Gasior Altman, Elizabeth Hoover, Sabrina McCormick,
Brian Mayer, and Crystal Adams
* 8.: The Institutionalization of Community Action in Public Health
* --Mark Wolfson and Maria Parries
* 9.: . Social Movement Challenges to Structural Archetypes: Abortion
Rights, AIDS, and Long-Term Care
* --Martin Kitchener
* 10.: The "Hostile Takeover" of Bioethics by the Religious Right and
the Counter-Offensive
* --Renee R. Anspach
* Section III. Professions and Organizations in the Transformation of
Health Care and Research
* 11.: Shadow Mobilization for Environmental Health and Justice
* --Scott Frickel
* 12.: Bringing Social Movement Theory to Health Care Practice in the
English National Health Service
* --Paul Bate and Glenn Robert
* 13.: Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Medical Education: The
Birth of an Organized Movement
* --Michael S. Goldstein
* 14.: . Sources of Self-Help Movement Legitimation
* --Matthew E. Archibald
* Section IV. Culture and Legitimacy in US Health Care
* 15.: . Hot or Not?: Obstacles to Emerging Climate-Induced Illness
Movements
* --Sabrina McCormick
* 16.: From Infanticide to Activism: Emotions and Identity in Self Help
Movements
* --Verta Taylor and Lisa Leitz
* 17: . Framing Hazards in the Health Arena: Mis-framings, Frame
Disputes and Frame Shifting in Relation to Obesity, Work-Related
Diseases, and Gamete Transfer in Infertility
* --David A. Snow and Roberta G. Lessor
* 18.: Conclusion: The Shape of Collective Action in the U.S. Health
Sector
* --Verta Taylor and Mayer N. Zald