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

Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 293 pages) 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 forms of medical disenfranchisement -- The curious case of the "Alpha patient population" -- Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-286) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.) SUBJECT Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.) Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.) fast Subject 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 Ethnology. Prenatal care. Maternal Health Services -- standards Anthropology, Cultural Healthcare Disparities Hospitals, Municipal -- standards Prenatal Care Socioeconomic Factors HEALTH & FITNESS -- Pregnancy & Childbirth. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General. Prenatal care Ethnology Discrimination in medical care Hospitals -- Maternity services Minorities -- Medical care Gesundheitspolitik Gynäkologie Reproduktionsmedizin Frauenklinik Entbindungsstation Ethnizität Rassismus Diskriminierung Krankenhaus. Frauenklinik. Minderheit. Diskriminierung. Mödravård -- Förenta staterna. Diskriminering. SUBJECT New York (N.Y.) United States Subject New York (State) -- New York USA New York, NY New York. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520949447 0520949447 9786613278104 6613278106

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