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Zusatztext "Smart." "Eye-opening." Informationen zum Autor Khiara M. Bridges is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Boston University. Klappentext “Bridges radically and actively demonstrates the truth of her claims through outstanding ethnography and analysis. Eminently praiseworthy.”—Robbie Davis-Floyd, author of Birth as American Rite of Passage and lead editor for British Models That Work “An important and timely contribution to recent scholarship on race in science, medicine, and public health. From the first page, I did not want to put the book down.”—Lundy Braun, Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Africana Studies, Brown University “There is no doubt that this is an important topic, and one the author is well-positioned to explore. Very, very powerful."—Cheryl Mattingly, author of Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots Zusammenfassung An ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, that explores the role of race in the medical setting. It 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE CLASS 1 / Alpha Hospital: Unique, But Not Singular 2 / Pregnancy, Medicaid, State Regulation, and Legal Subjection 3 / Th e Production of Unruly Bodies APRT TWO RACE 4 / Th e “Primitive Pelvis,” Racial Folklore, and Atavism in Contemporary Forms of Medical Disenfranchisement 5 / The Curious Case of the “Alpha Patient Population” 6 / Wily Patients, Welfare Queens, and the Reiteration of Race EPILOGUE NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
