An investigation of the consequences resulting from fertility-related development interventions in Tanzania
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Denise Roth Allen is currently an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer in the Division of Reproductive Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Compelling ethnographic account of maternity in Tanzania,
This review is from: Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Hardcover)
This scholarly account of the concept of maternal risk in a third world country is a must-read for anyone interested in reproductive health and development. It provides an insightful account of how "safe motherhood" campaigns promoted by international development agencies fail to take in account local perspectives.
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Helps Rethink the Idea of Risk,
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This review is from: Managing Motherhood, Managing Risk: Fertility and Danger in West Central Tanzania (Paperback)
This book is one of the only ones I know of that pulls apart the concept of "risk" and shows how this concept can work against women. We in the western world are used to hearing doctors talk about "risk" and often assume (at least, I think we assume) that this talk of risk is somehow HELPING our health outcomes. But we forget, at our own peril I think, that risk can mean different things to different people (to a pregnant woman and a doctor, for instance) and that all definitions of "risk" carry cultural baggage with them. What is risky to one person (or one culture) may be quite safe to another person (or another culture). This book reminds us to think about the power dynamics behind talk of risk.
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prenatal card, formal interviews with women, maternal health risk, unofficial risks, maternal health outcomes, nonancestral spirits, experience attending births, native midwives, prenatal ward, maternal mortality statistics, unsuccessful fertility, prenatal consultations, herbal market, birthing table, traditional birth attendants, biomedical setting, government clinic, labor ward, observing births, birth management, birthing women, maternal mortality ratio, maternal health care, obstructed labor, safe motherhood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mwana Nyanzanga, Safe Motherhood Initiative, Survey Question, World Bank, Ministry of Health, Native Authorities, Tabora Province, Tabora Region, Mary Douglas, United Republic of Tanzania, World Health Organization, African Inland Church, African Muslim, Daily News, Helping Women, Lake Victoria, Most of the Arab, Seventh-Day Adventist, Women's Global Network, Lake Province, Mary Blacklock, One Arab, South America New!
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prenatal card, formal interviews with women, maternal health risk, unofficial risks, maternal health outcomes, nonancestral spirits, experience attending births, native midwives, prenatal ward, maternal mortality statistics, unsuccessful fertility, prenatal consultations, herbal market, birthing table, traditional birth attendants, biomedical setting, government clinic, labor ward, observing births, birth management, birthing women, maternal mortality ratio, maternal health care, obstructed labor, safe motherhood Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mwana Nyanzanga, Safe Motherhood Initiative, Survey Question, World Bank, Ministry of Health, Native Authorities, Tabora Province, Tabora Region, Mary Douglas, United Republic of Tanzania, World Health Organization, African Inland Church, African Muslim, Daily News, Helping Women, Lake Victoria, Most of the Arab, Seventh-Day Adventist, Women's Global Network, Lake Province, Mary Blacklock, One Arab, South America New!
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