TY - JOUR
T1 - Rethinking the deserving body
T2 - Altruism, markets, and political action in health care provision
AU - Fernández-Kelly, Patricia
N1 - Funding Information:
FHCSD was founded as part of the Free Clinic Movement by Laura Rodriguez, a local activist. She was sixty-seven years old in 1970 when she successfully mobilized neighbours in Barrio Logan to take over an abandoned building, which then became the Chicano Free Clinic. By the late 1970s, Rodriguez had obtained federal funding and additional grants from the State of California. The organization was incorporated as a 501 C-3 not-for-profit organization in 1973.
PY - 2012/1
Y1 - 2012/1
N2 - I seek to understand two dimensions in the evolution and practices of medical institutions in the USA. First, I ask, how and why do medical organizations limit, suspend, or redirect profit-oriented functions to abide by principles of altruism and still survive in a competitive market economy? Reaching out to poor and immigrant populations entails non-economic factors, including the deployment of religious and humanitarian narratives. Conversely, the extent and character of legislative actions supporting philanthropic endeavours is closely related to mobilization at the grassroots level. I investigate the ways in which community organizations bring about changes to support practices that confound, at least to some extent, market expectations and underscore the significance of political action to secure health care services on behalf of low-income populations, including immigrants.
AB - I seek to understand two dimensions in the evolution and practices of medical institutions in the USA. First, I ask, how and why do medical organizations limit, suspend, or redirect profit-oriented functions to abide by principles of altruism and still survive in a competitive market economy? Reaching out to poor and immigrant populations entails non-economic factors, including the deployment of religious and humanitarian narratives. Conversely, the extent and character of legislative actions supporting philanthropic endeavours is closely related to mobilization at the grassroots level. I investigate the ways in which community organizations bring about changes to support practices that confound, at least to some extent, market expectations and underscore the significance of political action to secure health care services on behalf of low-income populations, including immigrants.
KW - Altruism and the market
KW - altruism and competitiveness
KW - immigration and health
KW - political action and health care
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U2 - 10.1080/01419870.2011.594166
DO - 10.1080/01419870.2011.594166
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84857928551
SN - 0141-9870
VL - 35
SP - 56
EP - 71
JO - Ethnic and Racial Studies
JF - Ethnic and Racial Studies
IS - 1
ER -