{"product_id":"sackred-birth-karen-antoinette-scott-9781666938418","title":"Sackred Birth: Mobilizing a New Quality Paradigm in Obstetric Care","description":"\u003cp\u003eHospitals, health plans, and quality organizations generally define safety as the absence of a preventable harm and subsequently interpret decreasing trends in adverse physical outcomes as indicators of reducing harm and improving quality. Karen Antoinette Scott situates the contemporary provision of obstetric care and evaluation of obstetric quality in a broader historical context to illuminate a culture of neutral apathy and detached concern towards the lives of Black women, men, and children, dating back to antebellum era ideologies and practices of anti-Black racism and anti-Black misogyny. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eScott challenges conventional obstetric quality ethics, leadership, theories, measures, and methodologies that primarily focus on adverse outcomes, effectively excluding patient experiences and community wisdom. \u003ci\u003eSACKRED Birth\u003c\/i\u003e argues the need for a more culturally and scientifically responsive, relevant, and rigorous obstetric quality paradigm defined, valued, and shaped for, by, and with Black mothers and birthing people. Using community-based focus groups and consensus dialogue, Scott establishes new obstetric quality norms and methodologies to guide scholars, professionals, and advocates in understanding, investigating, and interpreting clinical practice, decision-making, and care delivery during childbirth in a manner that affirms the humanity, power, and potential, not pathology, of Blackness, Black reproducing bodies, and Black births in hospital settings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karen Antoinette Scott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1666938416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781666938418\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 358\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Karen Antoinette Scott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48520106901759,"sku":"9781666938418","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9af657a1-4495-4bae-8ef9-03a6277c1f2e.jpg?v=1778740789","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sackred-birth-karen-antoinette-scott-9781666938418","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}