Uncertain suffering : racial health care disparities and sickle cell disease /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Temas:
Sickle cell anemia > Patients > United States.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Health services accessibility > United States.
Minorities > Medical care > United States.
Race discrimination > United States.
Social medicine > United States.
Sickle cell anemia.
Health services accessibility.
Prejudices.
Anemia, Sickle Cell
Healthcare Disparities
Health Services Accessibility
Minority Health
Socioeconomic Factors
Prejudice
Drépanocytose > Patients > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans les soins médicaux > États-Unis.
Services de santé > Accessibilité > États-Unis.
Minorités > Soins médicaux > États-Unis.
Drépanocytose.
Services de santé > Accessibilité.
Préjugés.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Sickle cell anemia
Prejudices
Discrimination in medical care
Health services accessibility
Minorities > Medical care
Race discrimination
Sickle cell anemia > Patients
Social medicine
Medizinische Versorgung
Rassendiskriminierung
Sichelzellenanämie
Biomedizin
Anthropologische Medizin
Gesundheitswesen
Schmerztherapie
Lebensqualität
Schwarze
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The questions
  • Race and uncertainty
  • Sickle cell disease in the clinic
  • Healthcare access and medical uncertainty
  • The affective dimensions of pain
  • Uncertain efficacy
  • Uncertain suffering
  • Reforming the system
  • Finding a way out of doxa : anthropology of the imagination
  • Adolescent transitioning : acculturating patients to the culture of medicine
  • Thought experiment : what does it mean to save a life?
  • Rethinking suffering : community-based health care, alternative medicine, and faith.

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