A critical review of recent literature on US social movements concerned with matters of
health and illness prompts reconsideration of the prevailing conception of such movements …

Social movements have often played an important role in emergencies, mobilising in
defence of those rights that they perceive as being at risk or more urgently needed than …

Given the difficulties of implementing 'top‐down'quality improvements, health service
leaders have turned to methods that empower clinicians to co‐produce 'bottom …

Health activists and health social movements have transformed medical treatment, promoted
public health policies, and extended civil rights for people with illness and disability. This …

Working mothers are common in the United States. In over half of all two-parent families,
both parents work, and women's paychecks on average make up 35 percent of their families' …

Taking popular protest as a common reaction to changes in hospital services as its point of
departure, this paper explores how a social movement has taken on the issue of the hospital …

Environmental health and justice activist groups, often led by women, represent an important
avenue for contesting corporate generated illness. Women's Voices for the Earth (WVE) …

The preceding chapters have, in our estimation, sparked a new critical and empirically
grounded dialogue about the practice of participation, its pitfalls, and its promise. Inasmuch …

This article explores tactics as political technologies in the context of health and patient
activism. It does so by exploring how the PanCyprian Thalassaemia Association––a …

The dissertation examines the salience of race over the course of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in
the United States. In contrast to the first decade of the epidemic, AIDS is now increasingly …