| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover-Page; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Sick Cities: Poverty and Infant Mortality in Central New York; 2 Imperatives and Impacts of the Federal WIC Program; 3 Methodological Persuasions: Solving Public Health Problems When "Problem" Holds Multiple Meanings; 4 Inside WIC: Bureaucracy, Barriers, and Provider Values; 5 Strategizing Motherhood and Public Health in Urban America; 6 Metaphorical Thought and the Construction of WIC Frames of Reference; 7 Hidden Rationalities; Appendices; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
This urban ethnography examines the relationship between urban residence and endemic poverty and health inequalities, particularly racial disparities in infant mortality in the United States. Starting from the everyday lives of women struggling to make ends meet, it represents an institutional ethnography of the WIC Program that identifies and explores how bureaucratic rigidity and hierarchy relate to personal decision-making in a context of pregnancy, parenting, and poverty |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0739189344 |
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9780739189344 |
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