Uncertain suffering [[electronic resource] ] : racial health care disparities and sickle cell disease / / Carolyn Moxley Rouse
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| Autore: |
Rouse Carolyn Moxley <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Uncertain suffering [[electronic resource] ] : racial health care disparities and sickle cell disease / / Carolyn Moxley Rouse
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2009] |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 362.196/15270089 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sickle cell anemia - Patients - United States |
| Discrimination in medical care - United States | |
| Health services accessibility - United States | |
| Minorities - Medical care - United States | |
| Race discrimination - United States | |
| Social medicine - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. facing t.p. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. The Questions -- Part 2. Reforming the System -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | On average, black Americans are sicker and die earlier than white Americans. Uncertain Suffering provides a richly nuanced examination of what this fact means for health care in the United States through the lens of sickle cell anemia, a disease that primarily affects blacks. In a wide ranging analysis that moves from individual patient cases to the compassionate yet distanced professionalism of health care specialists to the level of national policy, Carolyn Moxley Rouse uncovers the cultural assumptions that shape the quality and delivery of care for sickle cell patients. She reveals a clinical world fraught with uncertainties over how to treat black patients given resource limitations and ambivalence. Her book is a compelling look at the ways in which the politics of racism, attitudes toward pain and suffering, and the reliance on charity for healthcare services for the underclass can create disparities in the U.S. Instead of burdening hospitals and clinics with the task of ameliorating these disparities, Rouse argues that resources should be redirected to community-based health programs that reduce daily forms of physical and mental suffering. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Uncertain suffering |
| ISBN: | 0-520-94504-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910452474803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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