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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 28 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Anthropologies of American medicine.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Allyson Johnson. |
| Summary |
Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. Dána-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery. While poor and low-income black women are often the "mascots" of premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black women, who are just as likely to give birth prematurely. Drawing on an impressive array of interviews with nearly fifty mothers, fathers, neonatologists, nurses, midwives, and reproductive justice advocates, Dána-Ain Davis argues that events leading up to an infant's arrival in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and the parents' experiences while they are in the NICU, reveal subtle but pernicious forms of racism that confound the perceived class dynamics that are frequently understood to be a central factor of premature birth. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Reproductive health services -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
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African American women -- Medical care -- United States.
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Race discrimination -- Health aspects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Johnson, Allyson.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781705294673 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1705294677 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13751331 |
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