Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 293 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

1. Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
2. Hospitals > Maternity services > New York (State) > New York
3. Discrimination in medical care > New York (State) > New York
4. Minorities > Medical care > New York (State) > New York
5. Maternal Health Services > standards > New York City
6. Maternal Health Services > standards > United States
7. Anthropology, Cultural > New York City
8. Anthropology, Cultural > United States
9. Healthcare Disparities > New York City
10. Healthcare Disparities > United States
11. Hospitals, Municipal > standards > New York City
12. Hospitals, Municipal > standards > United States
13. Prenatal Care > New York City
14. Prenatal Care > United States
15. Socioeconomic Factors > New York City
16. Socioeconomic Factors > United States

Contents

1. 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

1. Sc E 11-520

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author

1. Bridges, Khiara M.

Title

1. Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / Khiara M. Bridges.

Imprint

1. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

LCCN

1. 2010041690

ISBN

1. 9780520268944 (alk. paper)
2. 0520268946 (alk. paper)
3. 9780520268951 (alk. paper)
4. 0520268954 (alk. paper)

Research call number

1. Sc E 11-520