Imagining Health: Medicine, Social Protest, and Modern American Literature

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare system

In the United States, a deep suspicion of professional medical expertise is becoming increasingly prominent. Meanwhile, many arguments for health justice take a highly critical view of medical authority, even rejecting it entirely. In the early to mid-twentieth century, alternatively, as medicine rapidly professionalized, Americans came to hold the medical establishment in a particularly high regard, whil...