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Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization
- Title
- Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.
- Author
- Bridges, Khiara M.
- Publication
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
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Details
- Description
- xi, 293 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
- 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 > New York City
- Maternal Health Services > standards > United States
- Anthropology, Cultural > New York City
- Anthropology, Cultural > United States
- Healthcare Disparities > New York City
- Healthcare Disparities > United States
- Hospitals, Municipal > standards > New York City
- Hospitals, Municipal > standards > United States
- Prenatal Care > New York City
- Prenatal Care > United States
- Socioeconomic Factors > New York City
- Socioeconomic Factors > United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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 form of medical disenfranchisement -- The curious case of the "Alpha patient population" -- Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race.
- Call Number
- Sc E 11-520
- ISBN
- 9780520268944 (alk. paper)
- 0520268946 (alk. paper)
- 9780520268951 (alk. paper)
- 0520268954 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010041690
- OCLC
- YBP 2010041690
- Author
- Bridges, Khiara M.
- Title
- Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.
- Imprint
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 11-520