Why Are Our Babies Dying? Pregnancy, Birth, and Death in America

Name: Why Are Our Babies Dying? Pregnancy, Birth, and Death in America
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ISBN: 9781594514418

ISBN-10: 1594514410

ISBN-13: 9781594514418

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sandra Lane

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Syracuse, New York, in the late 1980s led U.S. cities in African American infant deaths. Even today, in this "all American city," infants of color die more than two times as often as white babies. Infant mortality is too often addressed as if it were an isolated problem, rather than part of a systemic and repeating pattern of embedded racism and structural violence. The clearing of whole neighborhoods during urban renewal, coupled with the collapse of industry, brought unintended consequences. Dilapidated rental housing, abandoned houses, and empty lots provide the conditions for lead poisoning, gonorrhea, and illicit drug use. Inadequate education, unemployment, and racially biased arrest…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.98" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Lots of Trouble Out Here



Math and Biology



Risk in Social Context



Babies Having Babies



Health Literacy



Missing Fathers



Food Is Just Decoration



Plenty Blame to Go Around


Bibliography


Index


About the Author