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Aline C Gubrium1, Emily S Mann1, Sonya Borrero1

  • 1Aline C. Gubrium is with the Department of Health Promotion and Policy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Emily S. Mann is with the Department of Health Promotion, Education and Behavior, University of South Carolina, Columbia. Sonya Borrero is with the Departments of Medicine and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA. Christine Dehlendorf is with the Department of Family Community Medicine, University of California (UC) San Francisco. Jessica Fields is with the Department of Sociology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco. Arline T. Geronimus is with the Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Anu M. Gómez is with the Department of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley. Lisa H. Harris is with the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan. Jenny A. Higgins is with the Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Katrina Kimport is with the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, UC San Francisco. Kristin Luker is with the Departments of Sociology, and Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley. Zakiya Luna is with the Department of Sociology, UC Santa Barbara. Laura Mamo is with the Department of Health Education, San Francisco State University. Dorothy Roberts is with the Departments of Law, Sociology, and Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Diana Romero is with the Department of Public Health, The City University of New York Graduate Center, New York, NY. Gretchen Sisson is with Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, UC San Francisco.

American Journal of Public Health
|November 13, 2015
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