bokomslag Dying to Count
Kropp & själ

Dying to Count

Siri Suh

Pocket

659:-

Funktionen begränsas av dina webbläsarinställningar (t.ex. privat läge).

Uppskattad leveranstid 5-10 arbetsdagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249:-

Andra format:

  • 226 sidor
  • 2021
During the early 1990s, global health experts developed a new model of emergency obstetric care: post-abortion care or PAC. In developing countries with restrictive abortion laws and where NGOs relied on US family planning aid, PAC offered an apolitical approach to addressing the consequences of unsafe abortion. In Dying to Count, Siri Suh traces how national and global population politics collide in Senegal as health workers, health officials, and NGO workers strive to demonstrate PACs effectiveness in the absence of rigorous statistical evidence that the intervention reduces maternal mortality. Suh argues that pragmatically assembled PAC data convey commitments to maternal mortality reduction goals while obscuring the frequency of unsafe abortion and the inadequate care women with complications are likely to receive if they manage to reach a hospital. At a moment when African women face the highest risk worldwide of death from complications related to pregnancy, birth, or abortion, Suhs ethnography of PAC in Senegal makes a critical contribution to studies of global health, population and development, African studies, and reproductive justice.
  • Författare: Siri Suh
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781978804548
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 226
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-06-18
  • Förlag: Rutgers University Press