Reproductive Injustice : : Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth / / Dána-Ain Davis.
Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, given by the Association of American PublishersA troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infantsBlack women have higher...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 12 black and white illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Table and Illustrations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I
- 1 Premature Predicaments
- 2 Into the NICU
- 3 Pregnancy and Prematurity in the Afterlife of Slavery
- Witnessing a Birth
- Part II
- 4 Saving the Babies
- 5 Narrowing the Gap of Black Women’s Burden
- 6 Radical Black Birth Workers
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author