Reproducing race : an ethnography of pregnancy as a site of racialization /
Bridges, Khiara M.
Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Alpha Hospital : unique, but not singular -- Pregnancy, Medicaid, state regulations, and legal subjection -- The production of unruly bodies -- The "primitive pelvis," racial folklore, and atavism in contemporary form of medical disenfranchisement -- The curious case of the "Alpha patient population" -- Wily patients, welfare queens, and the reiteration of race.
Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.)
Hospitals
Discrimination in medical care
Minorities