Babylost

Racism, Survival, and the Quiet Politics of Infant Mortality, from A to Z

Monica J. Casper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2022
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-2594-9 (ISBN)

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Tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. The book centres women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. This is a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.

The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. Though the infant mortality rate overall has improved over the past century with public health interventions, racial disparities have not. Racism, poverty, lack of access to health care, and other causes of death have been identified, but not yet adequately addressed. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Despite the urgency of the problem, there has been little public discussion of infant loss. The question this book takes up is not why babies die; we already have many answers to this question. It is, rather, who cares that babies, mostly but not only Black and Native American babies, are dying before their first birthdays? More importantly, what are we willing to do about it? This book tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 58 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code. It centers women’s loss and grief, while also drawing attention to dimensions of infant death not often examined. It is simultaneously a sociological study of infant death, an archive of loss and grief, and a clarion call for social change.

MONICA J. CASPER is the dean of the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University in California. She is the author of The Making of the Unborn Patient (Rutgers University Press).

Introduction

Absence
Abuse
Angel Babies
Awareness

Babyland
Black Infant Mortality
Blame
Breastfeeding

Children’s Rights
CIA World Factbook
Congressional Black Caucus
Cuba

Dads
Deprivation
Disability
Doulas

Emptiness
Envy
Epigenetics

Folic acid
Fracking
Frankenstein

Grief
Guilt

Hope

Infant Mortality Rate
Infanticide

Japan

Kangaroo Care

Life

Maternal Mortality
Medicaid
Memphis
Mother’s Day

Neonatology Nurses

Obstetric Violence
Ohio

Placenta
Prematurity
Prenatal Care

Quiet

Racism
Rainbow Baby
Reproductive Justice

Stillbirth
Survival

Tahlequah
Trauma

Urgency
Vulnerability

Washington, D.C.
Weathering Women’s Health

Xenophobia
Y earning
ZIP Code

Erscheinungsdatum	18.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	20 b&w photographs
Verlagsort	New Brunswick NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 235 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Pädiatrie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-9788-2594-3 / 1978825943
ISBN-13	978-1-9788-2594-9 / 9781978825949
Zustand	Neuware