Explaining the Unexplainable: A Review of Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles by Claire L. Wendland
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Saggi, Neha
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management
- Abstract
- Obstetrician and anthropologist Claire L. Wendland’s Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles is the culmination of decades of ethnographic research and medical practice in Malawi. Wendland’s work seeks to better understand the multifaceted causes of maternal morbidity, considering six main contributors to maternal death and understanding each as a possible explanation for this phenomenon. Drawing on her ample experience and research in Malawi, Wendland uses medical case studies, interviews, and contextual evidence to explain why women in Malawi perish from giving birth, while also recognizing the ambiguity inherent in any single explanation for maternal death. She highlights this ambiguity by examining competing explanations for high rates of maternal death from researchers and caregivers worldwide. Each chapter of the book is focused on one of the main explanations that circulate to explain maternal death, discussing what each explanation contributes and leaves out. As such, Wendland ultimately concludes that no one reason can fully explain what drives high maternal mortality rates. Rather, she finds that the complex reasons for maternal death depend on multiple factors and actors.
- Date of publication
- 2023
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- Resource type
- Article
- Rights statement
- In Copyright
- Journal title
- Global Africana Review
- Journal volume
- 7
- Journal issue
- 1
- Page start
- 58
- Page end
- 60
- Language
- English
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