Health Care Civil Rights : How Discrimination Law Fails Patients / Anna Kirkland

Cover -- Subvention -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Health Care Civil Rights -- 2. How Health Care Civil Rights Became Patient Experience -- 3. How Insurance Companies Broker Health Care Civil Rights -- 4. How Conservatives Oppose Health Care Civil Rights -- 5. Realizing Health Care Civil Rights -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2025. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.