Sex and Race: The Analogy of Social Control

Ectopic Pregnancy: A Nursing Approach to Excess Risk Among Minority Women

“…Byrd (1990) points to historic discrimination as the root cause of inequity in today's health care system in the form of "a 'slave health deficit' that has never been corrected" (p. 279). Chafe (1988) Figure 5. Maternal mortuli!v.…”

“…Norms of moral reasoning traditionally have been based on the experience and attitudes of men (Gilligan, 19821, and much of the standard dogma of psychology is biased against women (Jordan, Kaplan, Miller, Stiver, & Surrey, 1991). Among women themselves, as in minority communities, internalized social values act as social controls (Chafe, 1988).…”