Partial Stories Maternal Death from Six Angles

Claire L. Wendland, "Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles"
English | ISBN: 0226816885 | 2022 | 384 pages | PDF | 7 MB
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?
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