The U.S. infant mortality rate is among the highest in the industrialized world, and Black babies are far more likely than white babies to die in their first year of life. Maternal mortality rates are also very high. The tragedy is twofold: it is undoubtedly tragic that babies die in their first year of life, and it is both tragic and unacceptable that most of these deaths are preventable. Babylost tracks social and cultural dimensions of infant death through 26 alphabetical entries, from Absence to ZIP Code.
MONICA J. CASPER is the dean of the College of Arts and Letters at San Diego State University in California. She is the author of The Making of the Unborn Patient (Rutgers University Press).
Introduction
Absence
Abuse
Angel Babies
Awareness
Babyland
Black Infant Mortality
Blame
Breastfeeding
Children’s Rights
CIA World Factbook
Congressional Black Caucus
Cuba
Dads
Deprivation
Disability
Doulas
Emptiness
Envy
Epigenetics
Folic acid
Fracking
Frankenstein
Grief
Guilt
Hope
Infant Mortality Rate
Infanticide
Japan
Kangaroo Care
Life
Maternal Mortality
Medicaid
Memphis
Mother’s Day
Neonatology Nurses
Obstetric Violence
Ohio
Placenta
Prematurity
Prenatal Care
Quiet
Racism
Rainbow Baby
Reproductive Justice
Stillbirth
Survival
Tahlequah
Trauma
Urgency
Vulnerability
Washington, D.C.
Weathering Women’s Health
Xenophobia
Y earning
ZIP Code