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The new left and public health: The health policy advisory center, community organizing, and the big business of health, 1967-1975

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Soon after its founding in the politically tumultuous late 1960s, the Health Policy Advisory Center (Health/PAC) and its Health/ PAC Bulletin became the strategic hub of an intense urban social movement around health care equality in New York City. I discuss its early formation, its intellectual influences, and the analytical framework that it devised to interpret power relations in municipal health care. I also describe Health/PAC's interpretation of health activism, focusing in particular on a protracted struggle regarding Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx. Over the years, the organization's stance toward community-oriented health politics evolved considerably, from enthusiastically promoting its potential to later confronting its limits. I conclude with a discussion of Health/PAC's major theoretical contributions, often taken for granted today, and its book American Health Empire.

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  • Chowkwanyun, M., 2011. "The new left and public health: The health policy advisory center, community organizing, and the big business of health, 1967-1975," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 101(2), pages 238-249.
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    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.189985
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