Uncertain suffering
Subtitle: racial healthcare disparities and sickle cell disease
By: Carolyn Moxley Rouse.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780520259119; 9780520259126
Subjects: Sickle cell anemia -- Patients -- United States; Discrimination in medical care -- United States; Health services accessibility -- United States; Minorities -- Medical care -- United States; Race discrimination -- United States; Social medicine -- United States
Description: xiv, 314 p. ; 23 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Race and uncertainty; title: Sickle cell disease in the clinic; title: Healthcare access and medical uncertainty; title: The affective dimensions of pain; title: Uncertain efficacy; title: Uncertain suffering; title: Reforming the system; title: Finding a way out of doxa : anthropology of the imagination; title: Adolescent transitioning : acculturating patients; title: To the culture of medicine; title: Thought experiment : what does it mean to save a life; title: Rethinking suffering : community-based; title: Healthcare, alternative medicine, and faith.