TY  - BOOK
AU  - Strong,Adrienne E.
TI  - Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania 
SN  - 9780520973916
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - Social Science / Anthropology
KW  - Health
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at <a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.93" target="_blank">www.luminosoa.org</a>.<BR /><BR /><I>Documenting Death</I> 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/48ed50e1-7125-4587-b5aa-89e798accd0e
ER  -