Uncertain suffering : racial health care disparities and sickle cell disease / Carolyn Moxley Rouse.

Author
Rouse, Carolyn Moxley, 1965- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Description
xiv, 314 pages ; 23 cm

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      Subject(s)
      Summary note
      "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--Page [ii].
      Notes
      "The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. facing t.p.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references and index.
      Contents
      • The questions
      • Race and uncertainty
      • Sickle cell disease in the clinic
      • Healthcare access and medical uncertainty
      • The affective dimensions of pain
      • Uncertain efficacy
      • Uncertain suffering
      • Reforming the system
      • Finding a way out of doxa : anthropology of the imagination
      • Adolescent transitioning : acculturating patients to the culture of medicine
      • Thought experiment : what does it mean to save a life?
      • Rethinking suffering : community-based health care, alternative medicine, and faith.
      ISBN
      • 9780520259119 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
      • 0520259114 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
      • 9780520259126 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      • 0520259122 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
      LCCN
      2008054125
      OCLC
      289095977
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