Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Notes on Contributors viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Beyond Control of Local Authorities: The Spanish Influenza Epidemic and Federal Supervision of Public Health 11
7. 2 The United States in Two Pandemics: The American Century and the Costs of American Culture 29
8. 3 The Politics of Public Health: Disease and Medical Authority in Twentieth-Century America 50
9. 4 From the ‘Lung Block’ to the ‘China Virus’: Public Health, Xenophobia and US Identity Formation over the American Century 68
10. 5 Oil, Progress and Public Health in the Early Twentieth Century 87
11. 6 Simkins v. Cone and the Hospital Desegregation Movement in the Long Twentieth Century 106
12. 7 Better Dead than Red, or Not? Nuclear Physics and Public Health at the Dawn of the Cold War 124
13. 8 Fighting the Cold War and Variola: The American Commitment to Smallpox Eradication 143
14. 9 Brother’s Brother Foundation in Costa Rica: A Case Study in Public–Private Partnerships and Global Health in the American Century 160
15. 10 AIDS and Reproductive Rights in the American Century 177
16. 11 The Making of Entitled Consumers: Neoliberal Ideas in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 195
17. 12 ‘Real Men Wear Masks’: COVID-19 and the Crisis of American Masculinity 218
18. Conclusion 237
19. Index 243