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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.
Subjects:
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
african americans.
ambivalence.
american healthcare system.
anthropology.
black americans.
community based health programs.
cultural assumptions.
disease.
doctor.
health disparity.
healthcare services.
healthcare.
human condition.
life and death.
medical treatment.
medicine.
mental suffering.
national policy.
pain and suffering.
physical suffering.
politics of racism.
race in america.
resource limitations.
sicker.
sickle cell anemia.
sickle cell patients.
sickness.
symptoms.
united states of america.
wealth disparity.
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