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Uncertain suffering : racial health care disparities and sickle cell disease /
On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. Uncertain Suffering provides a richly nuanced examination of what this fact means for health care in the United States through the lens of sickle cell anemia, a disease that primarily affects blacks. In a wide ranging analy...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. Uncertain Suffering provides a richly nuanced examination of what this fact means for health care in the United States through the lens of sickle cell anemia, a disease that primarily affects blacks. In a wide ranging analysis that moves from individual patient cases to the compassionate yet distanced professionalism of health care specialists to the level of national policy, Carolyn Moxley Rouse uncovers the cultural assumptions that shape the quality and delivery of care for sickle cell patients. She reveals. |
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| Notas: | "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. facing t.p. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiv, 314 p.) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520945043 0520945042 |