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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 co...
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.
Details
- Creator
- Khiara M. Bridges
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2011]
- ©2011
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 1283278103, 0520268946, 9786613278104, 0520268954, 9780520268944, 9780520268951, 9780520949447, 0520949447, 9781283278102, 6613278106
- OCLC
- ocn707067666, ocn707095165
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-286) and index.
- English.
- 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
Subjects
- Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
- Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
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- 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.
- Maternal Health Services -- standards.
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- Anthropology, Cultural.
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- Healthcare Disparities.
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- Hospitals, Municipal -- standards.
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- Prenatal Care.
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- Socioeconomic Factors.
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- New York (N.Y.)
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- United States.
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