Imagining Health by Ira Halpern - 9781625349125

Imagining HealthMedicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature\nAuthor(s): Ira Halpern\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Massachusetts Press, United States\nImprint: University of Massachusetts Press\nISBN-13: 9781625349125, 978-1625349125\nSynopsis\nA surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare system \n In the United States, a deep suspicion of professional medical expertise is becoming increasingly prominent. Meanwhile, many arguments for health justice take a highly critical view of medical authority, even rejecting it entirely. In the early to mid-twentieth century, alternatively, as medicine rapidly professionalized, Americans came to hold the medical establishment in a particularly high regard, while many saw how it could play a crucial role in progressive politics. In this period, technologies developed, specializations grew, and medical education became standardized. With this process came inequities, as marginalized popul.