Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America
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Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America
Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America

Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America

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Rachel Kahn Best (Author)  

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For over a hundred years, millions of Americans have joined together to fight a common enemy by campaigning against diseases. In Common Enemies, Rachel Kahn Best asks why disease campaigns have dominated a century of American philanthropy and health policy and how the fixation on diseases shapes efforts to improve lives. Combining quantitative and qualitative analyses in an unprecedented history of disease politics, Best shows that to achieve consensus, disease campaigns tend to neglect stigmatized diseases and avoid controversial goals. But despite their limitations, disease campaigns do not crowd out efforts to solve other problems. Instead, they teach Americans to give and volunteer and build up public health infrastructure, bringing us together to solve problems and improve our lives. 21 black and white line drawings
Rachel Kahn Best is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She studies political responses to social problems, focusing on how advocacy and culture shape whose concerns are addressed and whose are ignored.
  • Contributor: Rachel Kahn Best
  • Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • ISBN13: 9780190918415
  • Number of Pages: 272
  • Packaged Dimensions: 231x155x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 376
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Release Date: 2019-08-13
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Rachel Kahn Best is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She studies political responses to social problems, focusing on how advocacy and culture shape whose concerns are addressed and whose are ignored.

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