Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Khiara Bridges
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780520268951
ISBN 10: 0520268954
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 18 March 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
The richness of this book's ethnographic accounts is truly extraordinary, as is a detailed discussion of federal and state programs... Highly recommended. --Choice
Powerful... Bridges builds a thoughtful and important argument... An enormously challenging and valuable book. -- Rayna Rapp Anthropological Quarterly The richness of this book's ethnographic accounts is truly extraordinary, as is a detailed discussion of federal and state programs... Highly recommended. Choice Her work should be read by everyone involved in delivering healthcare to those without class privilege. -- Rayna Rapp Anthropological Quarterly A beautifully written and well researched ethnographic study of the delivery of prenatal and birth health care at one of our nation's most preeminent public hospitals. -- Laura Mamo American Journal Of Sociology
Powerful... Bridges builds a thoughtful and important argument... An enormously challenging and valuable book. -- Rayna Rapp Anthropological Quarterly 20120508 The richness of this book's ethnographic accounts is truly extraordinary, as is a detailed discussion of federal and state programs... Highly recommended. Choice 20111001 Her work should be read by everyone involved in delivering healthcare to those without class privilege. -- Rayna Rapp Anthropological Quarterly 20120101 A beautifully written and well researched ethnographic study of the delivery of prenatal and birth health care at one of our nation's most preeminent public hospitals. -- Laura Mamo American Journal Of Sociology 20120301
Author Information
Khiara M. Bridges is Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Boston University.
