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This 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. This book provides an unparalled view of the health care system and how it is affected by social movements.
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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.
A volume that fills a major gap – a theoretically rich, very well integrated, and quite timely collection by a distinguished group of scholars that illuminates the role of social movements and collective action in the transformation of the U.S. health care system.
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Preface
Social Movements and the Transformation of U.S. Health Care: Introduction
–Sandra R. Levitsky & Jane Banaszak-Holl
Section I: Transformation of State Financing and Regulation
The Limitations of Social Movements as Catalysts for Change
–Constance A. Nathanson
The Challenge of Universal Health Care: Social Movements, Presidential
Leadership, and Private Power
–Beatrix Hoffman
The Consumer-Directed Health Care Movement: Defining the Limits of Democratic Representation
–Jill Quadagno and J. Brandon McKelvey
Mobilizing for Reform: Cohesion in State Healthcare Coalitions
–Holly Jarman and Scott L. Greer
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
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
The Institutionalization of Community Action in Public Health
–Mark Wolfson and Maria Parries
. Social Movement Challenges to Structural Archetypes: Abortion Rights, AIDS, and Long-Term Care
–Martin Kitchener
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
Shadow Mobilization for Environmental Health and Justice
–Scott Frickel
Bringing Social Movement Theory to Health Care Practice in the English National Health Service
–Paul Bate and Glenn Robert
Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Medical Education: The Birth of an Organized Movement
–Michael S. Goldstein
. Sources of Self-Help Movement Legitimation
–Matthew E. Archibald
Section IV. Culture and Legitimacy in US Health Care
. Hot or Not?: Obstacles to Emerging Climate-Induced Illness Movements
–Sabrina McCormick
From Infanticide to Activism: Emotions and Identity in Self Help Movements
–Verta Taylor and Lisa Leitz
. 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
Conclusion: The Shape of Collective Action in the U.S. Health Sector
–Verta Taylor and Mayer N. Zald
