Name: Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania
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Author: Adrienne E. Strong
ISBN: 9780520310704

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

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Physical Book

Author

Adrienne E. Strong

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780520310704

Synopsis "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 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.