Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients
Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients
Health Care Civil Rights: How Discrimination Law Fails Patients
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Focusing on the provision of gender-affirming care, Health Care Civil Rights analyzes the difficulties and potential of discrimination law in healthcare settings. The application of civil rights law could be a powerful response to health inequalities in the US, but conservative challenges and the complex and fragmented nature of our health care system have limited the real-world success of this strategy. Revealing deep divides and competing interests that reverberate through patient experiences, insurance claims, and courtroom arguments, Anna Kirkland explains what health care civil rights are, how they work in theory and practice, and how to strengthen them.
Focusing on the provision of gender-affirming care, Health Care Civil Rights analyzes the difficulties and potential of discrimination law in healthcare settings. The application of civil rights law could be a powerful response to health inequalities in the US, but conservative challenges and the complex and fragmented nature of our health care system have limited the real-world success of this strategy. Revealing deep divides and competing interests that reverberate through patient experiences, insurance claims, and courtroom arguments, Anna Kirkland explains what health care civil rights are, how they work in theory and practice, and how to strengthen them.
About the Author
About the Author
Anna Kirkland is the Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author of Vaccine Court: The Law and Politics of Injury and Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"A well-researched and compelling account of how anti-discrimination law has been systematically weakened at different levels of the U.S. health care system. This book represents a solid contribution to our understanding of health policy, and would be of interest to students of health policy, public health, sociology of law and health, medical anthropology, as well as gender, women's, and sexuality studies."
-- "Ethnic and Racial Studies"
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
University of California Press
Pub date:
2025-04-08
Length:
216 pages
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