Ask the Author: Monica J Casper
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Monica J Casper
Well, that's disappointing! I will check in with my Pima Library folks and ask them to buy it. Thanks!
Monica J Casper
My sister and I were kidnapped in the 1970s...
Monica J Casper
Barely awake, she stumbled to the kitchen dreaming of hot black tea. Horrified, she discovered that the humans she lived with, all endowed with opposable thumbs, had failed to load the dishwasher.
Monica J Casper
I published my first book, The Making of the Unborn Patient, in 1998. This was based on my dissertation about fetal surgery and the politics of reproduction. While gathering data for that project, I became aware of significant racial disparities in infant mortality. While some babies were being saved through innovative surgical procedures, many others were dying of preventable causes. Black and Indigenous babies were and are far more likely to die in their first year of life than white babies, and this fact demanded further exploration. My work has been fueled, in part, by the knowledge that we know how to save babies from premature death, but we are not collectively making the right decisions to do so. Infant mortality is a social problem as much as - and perhaps more than - it is a medical problem.
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