Ethnicity and Health Care Delivery

ISBN-13: 9783838316161 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 220 str.

Douglas Feldman

Opis

This pre-AIDS era ethnography and evaluation study of two sexually transmitted infection clinics on Long Island, New York is as relevant today as it was when presented as a doctoral dissertation back in 1981. The numerous case studies give a very human face to the crisis of STIs that was rapidly growing in the years leading up to the advent of AIDS. It is learned that attitudes toward the clinics, the doctors, and the nurses differ not just among whites, blacks, and Hispanics, but also among different white ethnic groups, as well. Most of the policy recommendations are as valid today, if not more so, as they were when they were first made. This is the first ethnography by an anthropologist of STI clinics in the United States, and it is destined to become a classic in this field.

O autorze

Dr. Douglas A. Feldman is a Professor of Anthropology at The College at Brockport, State University of New York. He has edited or written several books on HIV/AIDS, most recently "AIDS, Culture, and Africa" (2008). He has conducted extensive research on the social and prevention aspects of HIV/AIDS in Africa and the United States.