Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 293 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

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