Description: "Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments-all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In 'All Health Politics Is Local', Merlin Chowkwanyun shifts our focus, taking us to four very different places-New York City, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and central Appalachia-to experience a national story through a regional lens"--
Brief description: Merlin Chowkwanyun is Donald H. Gemson Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Review Quotes: "The great strength of All Health Politics is Local is the rich data that Chowkwanyun presents in each chapter. . . . This, however, does not take away from the key contribution of [the book]: its emphasis on the uniqueness of each case, in contrast with conventional studies focused on the national level or based on large-n representative samples. . . . Chowkwanyun mounts a powerful defense of local politics and struggles as engines of social change where hopes for a better future find their material contours."--Contemporary Sociology