Spanning the period from the presidency of Woodrow Wilson to that of Donald Trump American
Health Crisis illuminates how?despite the elevation of health care as a human right throughout
the world?vulnerable communities in the United States continue to be victimized by structural
inequalities across disparate geographies income levels and ethnic groups. Martin Halliwell
views contemporary public health crises through the lens of historical and cultural
revisionings suturing individual events together into a narrative of calamity that has brought
us to our current crisis in health politics. American Health Crisis considers the future of
public health in the United States and presenting a reinvigorated concept of health
citizenship argues that now is the moment to act for lasting change.
