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Loading... Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzaniaby Adrienne E. Strong
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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 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"-- No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)362.1982009678Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Social problems of & services to groups of people People with physical illnesses Services to people with specific conditions Gynecology and PediatricsLC ClassificationRatingAverage: No ratings.Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |