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Partial Stories

- Maternal Death from Six Angles
Af: Claire L. Wendland Engelsk Paperback

Partial Stories

- Maternal Death from Six Angles
Af: Claire L. Wendland Engelsk Paperback
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A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in twelve could expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complication in Malawi. Specific deaths became object lessons. Explanatory stories circulated through hospitals and villages, proliferating among a range of practitioners: nurse-midwives, traditional birth attendants, doctors, epidemiologists, herbalists. Was biology to blame? Economic underdevelopment? Immoral behavior? Tradition? Were the dead themselves at fault?  In Partial Stories, Claire L. Wendland considers these explanations for maternal death, showing how they reflect competing visions of the past and shared concerns about social change. Drawing on extended fieldwork, Wendland reveals how efforts to legitimate a single story as the authoritative version can render care more dangerous than it might otherwise be. Historical, biological, technological, ethical, statistical, and political perspectives on death usually circulate in different expert communities and different bodies of literature. Here, Wendland considers them together, illuminating dilemmas of maternity care in contexts of acute change, chronic scarcity, and endemic inequity within Malawi and beyond.
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A close look at stories of maternal death in Malawi that considers their implications in the broader arena of medical knowledge. By the early twenty-first century, about one woman in twelve could expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth complication in Malawi. Specific deaths became object lessons. Explanatory stories circulated through hospitals and villages, proliferating among a range of practitioners: nurse-midwives, traditional birth attendants, doctors, epidemiologists, herbalists. Was biology to blame? Economic underdevelopment? Immoral behavior? Tradition? Were the dead themselves at fault?  In Partial Stories, Claire L. Wendland considers these explanations for maternal death, showing how they reflect competing visions of the past and shared concerns about social change. Drawing on extended fieldwork, Wendland reveals how efforts to legitimate a single story as the authoritative version can render care more dangerous than it might otherwise be. Historical, biological, technological, ethical, statistical, and political perspectives on death usually circulate in different expert communities and different bodies of literature. Here, Wendland considers them together, illuminating dilemmas of maternity care in contexts of acute change, chronic scarcity, and endemic inequity within Malawi and beyond.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 384
ISBN-13: 9780226816883
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0226816885
Udg. Dato: 22 apr 2022
Længde: 21mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 154mm
Forlag: The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato: 22 apr 2022
Forfatter(e): Claire L. Wendland
Forfatter(e) Claire L. Wendland


Kategori Sociologi: døden og døende


ISBN-13 9780226816883


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 384


Udgave


Længde 21mm


Bredde 228mm


Højde 154mm


Udg. Dato 22 apr 2022


Oplagsdato 22 apr 2022


Forlag The University of Chicago Press

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