Documenting Death
Documenting Death A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. Learn more…
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Documenting Death
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Through an exploration of everyday ethics and care practices on a local maternity ward, anthropologist Adrienne E. 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.
Growing administrative pressures to document good care serve to preclude good care in practice while placing frontline healthcare workers in moral and ethical peril. Strong untangles the reasons Tanzania has achieved so little sustainable success in reducing maternal mortality rates, despite global development support. Maternal health emergencies expose the precarity of hospital social relations and accountability systems, which, together, continue to lead to the deaths of pregnant