Babylost : Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z /

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The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with pu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Casper, Monica J., 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Maternal health services.
Maternal and infant welfare.
Infants > Mortality.
Discrimination in medical care.
Protection maternelle et infantile > États-Unis.
Discrimination dans les soins medicaux > États-Unis.
Nourrissons indiens d'Amerique > Sante et hygiene > États-Unis.
Nourrissons noirs americains > Sante et hygiene.
Nourrissons > Mortalite > États-Unis.
Maternal and infant welfare > United States.
Racism > Health aspects > United States.
Discrimination in medical care > United States.
Maternal health services > United States.
Indian infants > Health and hygiene > United States.
African American infants > Health and hygiene.
Infants > Mortality > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • A
  • Absence
  • Abuse
  • Angel Babies
  • Awareness
  • B
  • Babyland
  • Black Infant Mortality
  • Blame
  • Breastfeeding
  • C
  • Children's Rights
  • CIA's World Factbook
  • Congressional Black Caucus
  • Cuba
  • D
  • Dads
  • Deprivation
  • Disability
  • Doulas
  • E
  • Emptiness
  • Envy
  • Epigenetics
  • F
  • Folic Acid
  • Fracking
  • Frankenstein
  • G
  • Grief
  • Guilt
  • H
  • Hope
  • I
  • Infant Mortality Rate
  • Infanticide
  • J
  • Japan
  • K
  • Kangaroo Care
  • L
  • Life Expectancy
  • M
  • Maternal Mortality
  • Medicaid
  • Memphis
  • Midwives
  • Mother's Day
  • N
  • Neonatology
  • Nurses
  • O
  • Obstetric Violence
  • Ohio
  • P
  • Placenta
  • Prematurity
  • Prenatal Care
  • Q
  • Quiet
  • R
  • Racism
  • Rainbow Baby
  • Reproductive Justice
  • S
  • Stillbirth
  • Survival
  • T
  • Tahlequah
  • Trauma
  • U
  • Urgency
  • V
  • Vulnerability
  • W
  • Washington, D.C.
  • Weathering
  • Women's Health
  • X
  • Xenophobia
  • Y
  • Yearning
  • Z
  • Zip Code
  • Acknowledgments
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Author

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