When you leave out the door

The streets, Medicaid, and boundary spaces of healthcare in urban poverty

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2289296
AutoresTali Ziv (0000-0001-7043-4072, Department of Anthropology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore USA, autor correspondente)
Ano2025
Volume39
Fascículo2
Páginase12907-e12907
Data de publicação2025-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Anthropology Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0745-5194 • E-ISSN: 1548-1387
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/maq.12907
PMID39741122
OpenAlexW4405939618
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas49

Attending closely to the lived experiences of people moving in and out of Medicaid-funded institutions, I argue that "the streets" are critical to understanding healthcare in US urban poverty. Exploring the relationship between "the streets" and Medicaid-funded institutions, this essay asks: How does the relationship between "the streets"-and in the words of my research interlocutors-"life on the other side" shape life in Medicaid-funded institutions in the Northeast US city? How do the social and symbolic conditions of this relationship-conditions structured by anti-Blackness-formulate the human in urban poverty? By joining Medicaid-funded institutions together as a broader health-governing network, I demonstrate how these institutions become boundary spaces that reveal the socially and symbolically interdependent worlds of "the streets" and life off them. Ultimately, this essay argues that "the streets" contain the social and symbolic conditions that dehumanize the poor through the logics of anti-Blackness, thus defining the terms of humanization that Medicaid-funded institutions afford

Dehumanization · Health care · Interdependence · Medicaid · Political science · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies