Title: Reproducing race
Description: Reproducing Race, an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital. explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khira M. Bridges investiages how race- commonly seen as biological in the medical world- is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth, and demonstrates how the "medicalization" of social problems reproduces racial stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.
Subjects: Maternity services, Healthcare Disparities, Standards, Socioeconomic Factors, Discrimination in medical care, Minorities, Alpha Hospital (New York, N.Y.), Medical care, Municipal Hospitals, Prenatal Care, Hospitals, Maternal Health Services, Cultural Anthropology, Minorities, united states
Places: United States, New York City, New York (State), New York