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

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Berkeley : University of California Press, c2009.

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Location	Call No.	Status	Notes
Libraries Electronic Books	ELECTRONIC BOOK-eBook Academic Collection - North America	AVAIL. ONLINE

Description	xiv, 314 p. ; 23 cm.
Series	eBook Academic Collection - North America
Note	"The George Gund Foundation imprint in African American studies"--P. facing t.p.
Bibliography	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.
Access	License restrictions may limit access.
Subject	Sickle cell anemia -- Patients -- United States.
	Discrimination in medical care -- United States.
	Health services accessibility -- United States.
	Minorities -- Medical care -- United States.
	Race discrimination -- United States.
	Social medicine -- United States.
Added Author	eBook Academic Collection - North America
ISBN	9780520259119 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0520259114 (cloth : alk. paper)
	9780520259126 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0520259122 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC #	sseb_ssj0000836280

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