Martin Halliwell is Professor of American Studies at the University of Leicester. He has authored and edited fourteen books, including Therapeutic Revolutions: Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970; Voices of Mental Health: Medicine, Politics, and American Culture, 1970-2000; and The Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health.

Preface

Introduction 1918: Woodrow Wilson, Crisis, and the Arc of Public Health

Part 1: Geographies of Vulnerability: Environmental Health Crises
1. Disaster: Mississippi Flood, Buffalo Creek, Hurricane Katrina
2. Poverty: Dust Bowl, Urban Ghetto, Indian Reservation
3. Pollution: Nuclear Fallout, Water Contamination, Climate Change

Part 2: States of Vulnerability: Crises of Prevention and Treatment
4. Virus: Influenza, Polio, HIV/AIDS
5. Care: Postwar Hospitals, Community Action, Vet Centers
6. Drugs: Methadone, Diazepam, Fentanyl

Conclusion 2018: Obama, Trump, and the Future of Health Citizenship
Coda 2020

Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index