Health Care Civil Rights - How Discrimination Law Fails Patients

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Focusing on the provision of gender-affirming care, Health Care Civil Rights analyzes the difficulties and potential of discrimination law in healthcare settings. The application of civil rights law could be a powerful response to health inequalities in the US, but conservative challenges and the complex and fragmented nature of our health care system have limited the real-world success of this strategy. Revealing deep divides and competing interests that reverberate through patient experiences, insurance claims, and courtroom arguments, Anna Kirkland explains what health care civil rights are, how they work in theory and practice, and how to strengthen them.

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• Authors: Anna Kirkland, Kirkland Anna
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2025
• EAN: 9780520416109
• ISBN: 978-0-520-41610-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Human Rights, MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Discrimination, LAW / Gender & the Law, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender & the law, United States of America, USA, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Medical & healthcare law, Medical Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Medical and healthcare law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, Law and society, gender issues, Constitutional law and human rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care, Social discrimination and social justice, Gender studies: transgender & intersex