| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 293 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-286) 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 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
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Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.) |
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Hospitals -- Maternity services -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Hospitals -- Maternity services. |
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New York (State) -- New York. |
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Discrimination in medical care -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Discrimination in medical care. |
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Minorities -- Medical care -- New York (State) -- New York.
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Minorities -- Medical care. |
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New York (N.Y.)
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National Book Committee. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bridges, Khiara M. Reproducing race. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©2011 9780520268944 (DLC) 2010041690 (OCoLC)668191568 |
| ISBN |
9780520949447 (electronic book) |
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0520949447 (electronic book) |
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1283278103 |
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9781283278102 |
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9780520268944 |
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0520268946 |
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9780520268951 |
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0520268954 |
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9786613278104 |
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6613278106 |
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