Public Health and the American State

Giles Scott-Smith, Gaetano Di Tommaso, Dario Fazzi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399519342 (ISBN)

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Explores the importance of public health for understanding the transformation of American power, both domestically and internationally, over the past century.

This book explores the importance of public health for understanding the transformation of American power, both domestically and internationally, over the past century. Two pandemics – Spanish Flu in 1918-1920 and Covid-19 in 2019-2021 – provide the context for analysing the actions and responsibilities of the US government both domestically and internationally. It critically examines the provision of health as a public good in the context of the American Century – the application of American power to achieve a democratic, just, and profitable world order under US leadership. By using these two major health crises as book-ends for extending the American Century rubric beyond its usual twentieth century periodisation, the book emphasises the central role that health has played in conceptions of security, state-market relations, and citizenship formation. It critically examines the ways in which race, gender, and class have shaped attitudes to and applications of public and global health as well as how the responses to the threat of disease have brought mixed results, often contradicting the stated goals of social improvement. By reconsidering the American Century through the lens of the political and social struggles surrounding public health, the book provides a unique analysis of US political and social history.

Giles Scott-Smith is Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History and Dean of Leiden University College at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Gaetano Di Tommaso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), The Netherlands. Gaetano Di Tommaso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, The Netherlands, and a lecturer at Radboud University. His research centers on the role of natural resources in U.S. history, with a particular focus on the Progressive Era. His work looks specifically at the extraction and use of specific raw materials, such as fossil fuels, examining their impact on life and politics across diverse scales, from local environments and communities in the U.S. to international governance and global ecosystems. Dario Fazzi is Assistant Professor of US and Environmental History at Leiden University and Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), The Netherlands.

List of Illustrations

Introduction

Gaetano Di Tommaso, Dario Fazzi, Giles Scott-Smith

Beyond Control of Local Authorities: The Spanish Influenza Epidemic and Federal Supervision of Public Health

Jonathan Chilcote

The United States in Two Pandemics: The American Century and the Costs of American Culture

Nancy K. Bristow

The Politics of Public Health: Disease and Medical Authority in 20th Century America

Naomi Rogers

From the ‘Lung Block’ to the ‘China Virus’: Public Health, Xenophobia and US Identity Formation over the American Century

Stefano Morello, Kerri Culhane

Oil, Progress, and Public Health in the Early 20th Century

Gaetano Di Tommaso

Simkins v. Cone and the Hospital Desegregation Movement in the Long Twentieth Century

Richard M. Mizelle, Jr.

Better Dead than Red, or Not? Nuclear Physics and Public Health at the Dawn of the Cold War

Dario Fazzi

Fighting the Cold War and Variola: The American Commitment to Smallpox Eradication

Bob H. Reinhardt

Brother’s Brother Foundation in Costa Rica: A Case Study in Public-Private Partnerships and Global Health in the American Century

Sarah B. Snyder

AIDS and Reproductive Rights in the American Century

Emma Day

The Making of Entitled Consumers: Neoliberal Ideas in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003

Yifei Li

‘Real Men Wear Masks’: COVID-19 and the Crisis of American Masculinity

Olga Thierbach-McLean

Conclusion

Gaetano Di Tommaso, Dario Fazzi, Giles Scott-Smith

Erscheinungsdatum	16.12.2025
Zusatzinfo	6 black and white illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781399519342 / 9781399519342
Zustand	Neuware