Book ID: CBB904622878

Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America (2019)

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Rachel Kahn Best (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 272
Language: English

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.

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Review Kenton Kroker (2022) Review of "Common Enemies: Disease Campaigns in America". Canadian Journal of Health History/Revue canadienne d’histoire de la santé (pp. 451-454). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Adria L. Imada
Bollyky, Thomas J.
Laurie Garrett
Jonathan M. Berman
Pépin, Jacques
Yeo, I. S.
Concepts
Public health
Prevention and control of disease
Infectious diseases
Medicine and society
Medicine and politics
Disease and diseases
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, late
18th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Hawaii (U.S.)
Québec (Canada)
Italy
France
Institutions
UNICEF
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
World Bank
World Health Organization (WHO)
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