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Author:

Bridges, Khiara M.

Title:

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

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xi, 293 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Hospitals--Maternity services--New York.--New York.
Discrimination in medical care--New York.--New York.
Minorities--Medical care--New York.--New York.
Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
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.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

0520268954 (alk. paper)
9780520268951 (alk. paper)
0520268946 (alk. paper)
9780520268944 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)668191568

LCCN:

2010041690

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)