C.R.A.C.K.: A progeny of eugenics and a forlorn representation for African Americans

Monroe, Jacquelyn; Alexander, Rudolph

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“…First, critical medical scholars have prefaced efforts to deconstruct normative medical claims about prenatal drug-use with descriptions of the program (Frank et al, 2001;Zuckerman et al, 2002). Second, scholars have critiqued Project Prevention for its underlying eugenic-like rationales (Boyd, 2004;Glenn, 2006;Monroe and Alexander, 2005;Ross et al, 2001;Shatila et al, 2005;Smith, 2005;Wilson, 2002). Third, the program has been described as an unattractive option compared with therapeutic, religious and/or spiritual alternatives (Moore et al, 2005a(Moore et al, , 2005bYancey, 2005).…”

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“…In this issue Project Prevention is located as one nodal point along a continuum of efforts to deter the reproduction of 'risky (m)others'. For example, Monroe and Alexander (2005) argue that contra claims that no one group of people is targeted by the program, participation rates reveal that women -particularly African American women -are over-represented when compared with national population statistics. Likewise Shatila et al (2005: 37) Other critiques that emerge from this journal are that the 'marketing strategies' used by Project Prevention target lower-class populations, especially racialized women.…”

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“…Likewise Shatila et al (2005: 37) Other critiques that emerge from this journal are that the 'marketing strategies' used by Project Prevention target lower-class populations, especially racialized women. These condemned strategies include the distribution of posters that read 'Don't Let a Pregnancy Ruin Your Drug Habit' in racialized communities and/or outside welfare offices (Shatila et al, 2005: 33; see also Monroe and Alexander, 2005). The culmination of such claims leads these scholars to conclude that 'some organizations, often operating under the guise of helping disenfranchised populations, seek to limit people's rights and the very programs touted as fixing social problems only serve to further marginalize these populations' (Shatila et al, 2005: 32).…”

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(M)Others in Altered States: Prenatal Drug-Use, Risk, Choice, and Responsible Self-Governance

Gregory

2010

Social & Legal Studies

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The purpose of this article is four-fold. Firstly, it is meant to draw attention to Project Prevention, an American-based program funded largely by private donations used to offer people — mostly poor, racialized, drug-using women — up to $200 for limiting their reproductive abilities. Secondly, it highlights links between Project Prevention’s mandate and prevailing discriminatory scientific-medical, legal, political, and media discourses which serve to constitute certain ‘Truths’ about the dangers of prenatal drug-use and parenthood, particularly for women. Thirdly, Project Prevention is framed and theorized within its neo-liberal context in order to underscore the ways that contemporary (pregnant) bodies often become governed through social initiatives which implode state/non-state agencies, public/private distinctions. Finally, to ensure readers are not left with overly simplistic readings of the issues at hand, the article concludes by considering the potential role of counterclaims in terms of who does and does not get constructed as a ‘risky’ reproductive agent.

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Germs and Jim Crow: The Impact of Microbiology on Public Health Policies in Progressive Era American South

Patterson¹

2008

J Hist Biol

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Race proved not merely a disadvantage in securing access to prompt and appropriate medical care, but often became a life and death issue for blacks in the American South during the early decades of the twentieth century. This article investigates the impact some of the new academic disciplines such as anthropology, evolutionary biology, racially based pathology and genetics had in promoting scientific racism. The disproportionately high morbidity and mortality rates among blacks were seen as a consequence of inherent racial deficiencies that rendered any attempt to ameliorate their situation as futile. While the belief in a different pathology in blacks initially deterred most health officials from taking any action, advances in medicine and microbiology, in particular the germ theory, stirred a variety of responses out of sheer self preservation, as fears among whites at the first sign of an epidemic initiated sporadic and limited actions. Ironically, in an era of deepening scientific racism, public health initiatives based on a better understanding of disease causing microorganisms, gradually improved black health. However, some public health measures were hijacked by eugenicists and racists and, rather than addressing the ill health of blacks, public health policy complied with the new laws of heredity by promoting drastic measures such as involuntary sterilization or even abortion. This further complicated the strained relationship between southern blacks and health care professionals and effected ongoing distrust towards public healthcare services.

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Predictors of healthcare mistreatment among transgender and gender diverse individuals: Are there different patterns by patient race and ethnicity?

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C.R.A.C.K.: A progeny of eugenics and a forlorn representation for African Americans

Cited by 4 publications

References 27 publications

(M)Others in Altered States: Prenatal Drug-Use, Risk, Choice, and Responsible Self-Governance

(M)Others in Altered States: Prenatal Drug-Use, Risk, Choice, and Responsible Self-Governance

Germs and Jim Crow: The Impact of Microbiology on Public Health Policies in Progressive Era American South

Predictors of healthcare mistreatment among transgender and gender diverse individuals: Are there different patterns by patient race and ethnicity?

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