Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care

by Banaszak-Holl, Jane C.; Levitsky, Sandra R.; Zald, Mayer N.

• ISBN13: 9780199866519
• ISBN10: 0199866511
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Few contemporary social problems in the U.S. affect more people daily than those within the American health care system. 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. Gathering scholars from medicine, health policy, history, sociology, and political science, the book considers health-related social movements from four distinct levels, concentrating on movements seeking changes in the regulation, financing, and distribution of health resources; changes in institutions in public health, bio-ethics, and other fields; interactions between social movements and professions; and the cultural dominance of the medical model, and the difficulties for framing and legitimizing new issues in health care it poses. At a time when American health care is long overdue for major changes, this book takes an essential look at movements, policies, and institutions to identify the common constraints and opportunities for reform within the health care system.

Author Biography

Jane Banaszak-Holl is Associate Professor of Health Management and Policy in the School of Public Health, a Research Associate Professor in the Institute of Gerontology at the School of Medicinem and Adjunct Associate Professor of Organizational Studies in the College of Literature, Science and Arts, at the University of Michigan.

Sandra R. Levitsky is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan.

Mayer Zald is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Social Work, and Management at the 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.

Table of Contents

Preface
1. Social Movements and the Transformation of U.S. Health Care: Introduction, Sandra R. Levitsky and Jane Banaszak-Holl
Section One: 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 Two: 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 Three: 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 Four: 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