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Subject(s)

• Reproductive health services—Social aspects—United States [Browse]
• Discrimination in medical care—United States [Browse]
• African American mothers—Mortality [Browse]
• African American mothers—Medical care [Browse]
• African American women—Medical care [Browse]
• Race discrimination—Health aspects—United States [Browse]

Series

• Anthropologies of American medicine [More in this series]
• Anthropologies of American medicine: culture, power, and practice [More in this series]

Summary note

"'Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth' explores the issues of racism, medicine, and motherhood"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-239) and index.

Contents

• Introduction
• Part I. Premature predicaments ; Into the NICU ; Pregnancy and prematurity in the afterlife of slavery ; Witnessing a birth: an interlude
• Part II. Saving the babies ; Narrowing the gap of Black women's burden ; Radical Black birth workers --Conclusion.

Other title(s)

Racism, pregnancy, and premature birth

ISBN

• 9781479812271 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 1479812277 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9781479853571 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 1479853577 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2018037661

OCLC

1056475637

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