Reproductive injustice : racism, pregnancy, and premature birth

Author/Creator:

Davis, Dána-Ain, 1958- author

Publication/Creation:

New York : New York University Press, [2019]

Resource Type:

Book

More Details

Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Reproductive injustice : racism, pregnancy, and premature birth / Dána-Ain Davis

Series Titles:

Anthropologies of American medicine: culture, power, and practice
Anthropologies of American medicine.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Reproductive health services--Social aspects--United States
Discrimination in medical care--United States
African American women--Medical care--United States
Race discrimination--Health aspects--United States
Reproductive Health Services
Racism
African Americans
Women's Health Services
United States

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Premature Predicaments -- Into the NICU -- Pregnancy and Prematurity in the Afterlife of Slavery -- Witnessing a Birth: An Interlude -- Saving the Babies -- Narrowing the Gap of Black Women's Burden -- Radical Black Birth Workers

Summary:

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

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xvi, 251 pages ; 23 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936928110802486

ISBN:

9781479812271
1479812277
9781479853571
1479853577

OCLC Number:

1056475637