Documenting death : maternal mortality and the ethics of care in Tanzania /

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"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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Strong, Adrienne E., 1988- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Mawingu Regional Hospital (Rukwa Region, Tanzania)
Mothers > Mortality > Moral and ethical aspects > Tanzania.
Maternal Mortality.
Ethics, Medical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Tanzania.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Mawingu Regional Hospital maternity ward
  • Working in scarcity
  • Protocols and deviations: good enough care
  • "Bad luck," lost babies, and the structuring of realities
  • Landscapes of accountability in care
  • The stories we tell about the deaths we see
  • Already dead
  • "Pregnancy is poison": the road to maternal death
  • The meanings of maternal death.

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