TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis,Dána-Ain
TI  - Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth 
T2  - Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
SN  - 9781479812271
AV  - RG649 
U1  - 618.39708996073 23
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - African American women
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Discrimination in medical care
KW  - United States
KW  - Premature labor
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Race discrimination
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Reproductive health services
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Baby Doe rules
KW  - Black feminist framework
KW  - Children's Bureau
KW  - German measles
KW  - March of Dimes
KW  - NICU
KW  - NICUs
KW  - Sheppard-Towner Act
KW  - afterlife of slavery
KW  - birth stories
KW  - birth workers
KW  - comprehensive care
KW  - definition of prematurity
KW  - diagnostic lapse
KW  - doula
KW  - doulas
KW  - etiology
KW  - hardy babies
KW  - labor
KW  - medical encounters
KW  - medical racism
KW  - midwives
KW  - misdiagnosis
KW  - model of care
KW  - neonatal intensive care unit
KW  - neonatologists
KW  - obstetric hardiness
KW  - polio
KW  - premature birth
KW  - preventive approaches
KW  - race and pregnancy
KW  - racial disparity
KW  - racial politics
KW  - racial science
KW  - racism
KW  - technologies of saving
KW  - temporality
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, given by the Association of American PublishersA troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infantsBlack 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.The book argues not only that medical racism persists and must be considered when examining adverse outcomes-as well as upsetting experiences for parents-but also that NICUs and life-saving technologies should not be the only strategies for improving the outcomes for black pregnant women and their babies. Davis makes the case for other avenues, such as community-based birthing projects, doulas, and midwives, that support women during pregnancy and labor are just as important and effective in avoiding premature births and mortality
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