Martha C Ward

Poor Women, Powerful Men (eBook, ePUB)

America's Great Experiment In Family Planning

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book chronicles the achievements and failure of the Louisiana Family Health Foundation, the extensive family planning program ever to operate in the United States. It reveals the mechanisms at work in the perpetual controversies surrounding the delivery of health care services to the poor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 189
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000307658
• Artikelnr.: 57123947

Autorenporträt

Martha C. Ward is professor of anthropology at the University of New Orleans. She has done extensive fieldwork in the U.S. Trust Territory of Micronesia on the relationship of social change and stress diseases and has published Them Children: A Study in Language Learning (1971), a book about black family structure and language in Louisiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface -- More Folklore than Folk Care -- Margaret Sanger Comes to Louisiana -- Building the Model -- From the Possible to the Impossible -- The Peak Is Reached -- The Great Family Planning War -- Epilogue and Epitaph -- Estimated Federal Funding to Family Health Foundation, January 1967 Through April 1974 -- Medical Services Offered by the Louisiana Family Planning Program