Documenting Death : Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania /

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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 m...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strong, Adrienne E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]
Temas:
Mothers > Mortality > Moral and ethical aspects > Tanzania.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural & Social.
Tanzania
Health & Fitness
Health Care Issues
Social Science
Anthropology
General
Cultural & Social
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (270 pages)
ISBN:9780520973916
0520973917

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