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.

ISBN:	9780520310704
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	03 Nov 2020
DEWEY:	362.1982009678
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xx, 246
Weight:	514g
Height:	153mm
Width:	228mm
Spine width:	19mm

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