{"product_id":"reproducing-race-9780520268951","title":"Reproducing Race","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, that explores the role of race in the medical setting. It investigates 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Powerful... Bridges builds a thoughtful and important argument... An enormously challenging and valuable book.\" -- Rayna Rapp Anthropological Quarterly \"The richness of this book's ethnographic accounts is truly extraordinary, as is a detailed discussion of federal and state programs... Highly recommended.\" Choice \"Her work should be read by everyone involved in delivering healthcare to those without class privilege.\" -- Rayna Rapp Anthropological Quarterly \"A beautifully written and well researched ethnographic study of the delivery of prenatal and birth health care at one of our nation's most preeminent public hospitals.\" -- Laura Mamo American Journal Of Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS \u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE \u003cbr\u003e CLASS\u003cbr\u003e 1 \/ Alpha Hospital: Unique, But Not Singular \u003cbr\u003e 2 \/ Pregnancy, Medicaid, State Regulation, and Legal Subjection \u003cbr\u003e 3 \/ Th e Production of Unruly Bodies \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e APRT TWO \u003cbr\u003e RACE \u003cbr\u003e 4 \/ Th e “Primitive Pelvis,” Racial Folklore, and Atavism in Contemporary Forms of\u003cbr\u003e Medical Disenfranchisement \u003cbr\u003e 5 \/ The Curious Case of the “Alpha Patient Population” \u003cbr\u003e 6 \/ Wily Patients, Welfare Queens, and the Reiteration of Race \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e EPILOGUE\u003cbr\u003e NOTES  \u003cbr\u003e BIBLIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e INDEX ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864872628567,"sku":"9780520268951","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520268951.jpg?v=1722273249","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/reproducing-race-9780520268951","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}