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

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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.

Author: Adrienne E. Strong
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/03/2020
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780520310704
ISBN10: 0520310705
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social
- Health & Fitness | Health Care Issues
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | African Studies

About the Author
Adrienne E. Strong is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida.