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Author:   Giles Scott-Smith (Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History, Leiden University, The Netherlands) ,  Gaetano Di Tommaso (Postdoctoral Researcher, Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), The Netherlands.) ,  Dario Fazzi (Assistant Professor of US and Environmental History, Leiden University)
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
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9781399519342

ISBN 10:   1399519344
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   31 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Introduction Gaetano Di Tommaso, Dario Fazzi, Giles Scott-Smith Beyond Control of Local Authorities: The Spanish Influenza Epidemic and Federal Supervision of Public Health Jonathan Chilcote The United States in Two Pandemics: The American Century and the Costs of American Culture Nancy K. Bristow The Politics of Public Health: Disease and Medical Authority in 20th Century America Naomi Rogers From the ‘Lung Block’ to the ‘China Virus’: Public Health, Xenophobia and US Identity Formation over the American Century Stefano Morello, Kerri Culhane Oil, Progress, and Public Health in the Early 20th Century Gaetano Di Tommaso Simkins v. Cone and the Hospital Desegregation Movement in the Long Twentieth Century Richard M. Mizelle, Jr. Better Dead than Red, or Not? Nuclear Physics and Public Health at the Dawn of the Cold War Dario Fazzi Fighting the Cold War and Variola: The American Commitment to Smallpox Eradication Bob H. Reinhardt Brother’s Brother Foundation in Costa Rica: A Case Study in Public-Private Partnerships and Global Health in the American Century Sarah B. Snyder AIDS and Reproductive Rights in the American Century Emma Day The Making of Entitled Consumers: Neoliberal Ideas in the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 Yifei Li ‘Real Men Wear Masks’: COVID-19 and the Crisis of American Masculinity Olga Thierbach-McLean Conclusion Gaetano Di Tommaso, Dario Fazzi, Giles Scott-Smith

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Public Health and the American State features significant scholarship demonstrating the ways that the U.S. exercise of power and the provision of public health have shaped each other throughout the last century. This carefully curated collection produces that rare volume in which every essay is a must-read, posing new questions and avenues for future research. --Anne Foster, Indiana State University

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Giles Scott-Smith is Professor of Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History and Dean of Leiden University College at Leiden University, The Netherlands. Gaetano Di Tommaso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), The Netherlands. Gaetano Di Tommaso is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies in Middelburg, The Netherlands, and a lecturer at Radboud University. His research centers on the role of natural resources in U.S. history, with a particular focus on the Progressive Era. His work looks specifically at the extraction and use of specific raw materials, such as fossil fuels, examining their impact on life and politics across diverse scales, from local environments and communities in the U.S. to international governance and global ecosystems. Dario Fazzi is Assistant Professor of US and Environmental History at Leiden University and Senior Researcher at the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS), The Netherlands.

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