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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Strong, Adrienne E. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2021]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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