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Author:   Jenna M. Loyd ,  Jenna M Loyd
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780816676507

ISBN 10:   081667650
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   01 April 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: War, American Exceptionalism, and the Place of Health Activism Part I. Desegregating Health, Transforming Health Care1. Urban Geopolitics and the Fight for “Equal Justice in Health Care Now”2. Watts, the War on Poverty, and the Promise of Community Control Part II. Urban Crisis3. Economic Conversion, Survival, and Race in “Dodge City”4. Mothering Underground: The Home in Women’s Welfare and Peace Organizing5. The War at Home: Forging Interracial Solidarities for Peace and Freedom Part III. Cold War Body Politics6. Population Scares and Antiviolence Roots of Reproductive Justice7. Where Is Health? The Place of the Clinic in Social Change8. “Property Rights over Human Life”: Taxes and Austerity in the Divided City Epilogue: The Right to Health Meets the Right to the CityNotesBibliographyIndex

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This is a wonderful and frank view of a first-time-marathoner-turned-running-addict. Phil shares the pitfalls and emotions that running a marathon for the first time evoke and how running can grab you and draw you back for more. --Liz Yelling, Double Olympian and Commonwealth bronze medallist

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Jenna M. Loyd received her PhD in geography from the University of California, Berkeley, and is assistant professor of public health policy and administration at the Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health at University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is a coeditor of Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis.

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