Reproducing race [[electronic resource] ] : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / / Khiara M. Bridges
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Bridges Khiara M
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| Titolo: |
Reproducing race [[electronic resource] ] : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization / / Khiara M. Bridges
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.19/82009747 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto non controllato: | america |
| biology of race | |
| childbirth | |
| ethnographers | |
| ethnography | |
| expecting mothers | |
| infant mortality | |
| marginalized women | |
| maternal mortality | |
| medicaid | |
| medical setting | |
| new york city | |
| politics of healthcare | |
| poor women | |
| pregnancy | |
| pregnant women | |
| prenatal care | |
| public healthcare system | |
| public hospital | |
| racial inequality | |
| racial issues | |
| racialization | |
| role of race | |
| social constructions | |
| social inequality | |
| social problems | |
| us healthcare | |
| women of color | |
| womens issues | |
| Classificazione: | 71.62 |
| 73.06 | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. Class -- Part Two. Race -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates how race-commonly seen as biological in the medical world-is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not explicitly named, showing how they are marginalized by the practices and assumptions of the clinic staff. Deftly weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges shines new light on the politics of healthcare for the poor, demonstrating how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Reproducing race |
| ISBN: | 1-283-27810-3 |
| 9786613278104 | |
| 0-520-94944-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809058303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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