Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care

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Alicia Puglionesi and Andrew Jewett will join Guian McKee in conversation about McKee's book Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care as part of the Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series.

This is an evening of scholarship made accessible, opening conversation around this book, which recasts the story of the health care system by emphasizing the economic and social importance of hospitals in American communities. While hospitals have become vital economic anchors in cities across the country, the spending that supports them has constrained possibilities for comprehensive health care reform.

Guian McKee is a professor of presidential studies at the Miller Center. He earned a doctorate in American history at the University of California, Berkeley in May 2002 and is the author of Hospital City, Health Care Nation: Race, Capital, and the Costs of American Health Care, published in March 2023 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia, published in 2008 by the University of Chicago Press. At the Miller Center, McKee is co-chair of the Presidential Recordings Program and also co-directs the Health Care Policy Project.