Documenting Death : : Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania / / Adrienne E. Strong.
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local ma...
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Strong, Adrienne E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Documenting Death : Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania / Adrienne E. Strong. Oakland University of California Press 2020 Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021] ©2020 1 online resource (270 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jan 2021) This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Documenting Death is a gripping ethnographic account of the deaths of pregnant women in a hospital in a low-resource setting in Tanzania. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global development support. Growing administrative pressures to document good care serve to preclude good care in practice while placing frontline healthcare workers in moral and ethical peril. Maternal health emergencies expose the precarity of hospital social relations and accountability systems, which, together, continue to lead to the deaths of pregnant women. In English. Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Mawingu Regional Hospital Maternity Ward -- 2. Working in Scarcity -- 3. Protocols and Deviations -- 4. “Bad Luck,” Lost Babies, and the Structuring of Realities -- 5. Landscapes of Accountability in Care -- 6. The Stories We Tell about the Deaths We See -- 7. Already Dead -- 8. “Pregnancy Is Poison” -- 9. The Meanings of Maternal Death -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Deaths Occurring during the Field Period -- Glossary of Medical Terms -- Notes -- References -- Index Mothers Mortality Moral and ethical aspects Tanzania. Health & Fitness Health Care Issues Social Science Anthropology General Cultural & Social Mawingu Regional Hospital (Rukwa Region, Tanzania) 0-520-31070-5 0-520-97391-7 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Mawingu Regional Hospital Maternity Ward -- 2. Working in Scarcity -- 3. Protocols and Deviations -- 4. “Bad Luck,” Lost Babies, and the Structuring of Realities -- 5. Landscapes of Accountability in Care -- 6. The Stories We Tell about the Deaths We See -- 7. Already Dead -- 8. “Pregnancy Is Poison” -- 9. The Meanings of Maternal Death -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Deaths Occurring during the Field Period -- Glossary of Medical Terms -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Mawingu Regional Hospital Maternity Ward -- 2. Working in Scarcity -- 3. Protocols and Deviations -- 4. “Bad Luck,” Lost Babies, and the Structuring of Realities -- 5. Landscapes of Accountability in Care -- 6. The Stories We Tell about the Deaths We See -- 7. Already Dead -- 8. “Pregnancy Is Poison” -- 9. The Meanings of Maternal Death -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Deaths Occurring during the Field Period -- Glossary of Medical Terms -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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