Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization /

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This title is an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital. The book explores the role of race in the medical setting. Bridges investigates how race is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bridges, Khiara M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2011.
Temas:
Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Hospitals > Maternity services > New York (State) > New York.
Discrimination in medical care > New York (State) > New York.
Minorities > Medical care > New York (State) > New York.
Ethnology.
Prenatal care.
Maternal Health Services > standards
Anthropology, Cultural
Healthcare Disparities
Hospitals, Municipal > standards
Prenatal Care
Socioeconomic Factors
Discrimination dans les soins médicaux > New York (État) > New York.
Minorités > Soins médicaux > New York (État) > New York.
Ethnologie.
Soins prénatals.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Pregnancy & Childbirth.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Prenatal care
Ethnology
Discrimination in medical care
Hospitals > Maternity services
Minorities > Medical care
Gesundheitspolitik
Gynäkologie
Reproduktionsmedizin
Frauenklinik
Entbindungsstation
Ethnizität
Rassismus
Diskriminierung
Krankenhaus.
Frauenklinik.
Minderheit.
Diskriminierung.
Mödravård > Förenta staterna.
Diskriminering.
New York (N.Y.)
United States
New York (State) > New York
USA
New York, NY
New York.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Alpha Hospital : unique, but not singular
  • Pregnancy, Medicaid, state regulations, and legal subjection
  • The production of unruly bodies
  • The "primitive pelvis," racial folklore, and atavism in contemporary forms of medical disenfranchisement
  • The curious case of the "Alpha patient population"
  • Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race.

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