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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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