Dying to Count : Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal /
Suh, Siri
Dying to Count : Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal / Siri Suh. - 1 online resource (234 p.) : 5 b-w images, 9 tables - Medical Anthropology .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTE ON ANONYMITY AND LANGUAGE -- Introduction: PAC as Reproductive Governance -- 1 A “Transformative” Intervention -- 2 A Troublesome Technology: The Multiple Lives of MVA in Senegal -- 3 “We Wear White Coats, Not Uniforms”: Abortion Surveillance in Hospitals -- 4 When Abortion Does Not Count: Interpreting PAC Data -- Conclusion: Evidence, Harm Reduction, and Reproductive Justice -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: Cases of Admitted and Suspected Induced Abortions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index
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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 PAC’s 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, Suh’s ethnography of PAC in Senegal makes a critical contribution to studies of global health, population and development, African studies, and reproductive justice.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781978804586
10.36019/9781978804586 doi
2020042810
Abortion services--Senegal.
Maternal health services--Senegal.
Medical policy--Senegal.
Reproductive health--Senegal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
global health, medical sociology, abortion, post-abortion, PAC, family planning, Women's health, health, pregnancy, birth, African studies, population, development, maternal mortality, unsafe abortions, reproductive justice, abortion surveillance, induced abortions, Senegal, post-abortion care, reproductive health, health politics.
RG734 / .S84 2021
362.1988/8009663
Dying to Count : Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal / Siri Suh. - 1 online resource (234 p.) : 5 b-w images, 9 tables - Medical Anthropology .
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- FOREWORD -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTE ON ANONYMITY AND LANGUAGE -- Introduction: PAC as Reproductive Governance -- 1 A “Transformative” Intervention -- 2 A Troublesome Technology: The Multiple Lives of MVA in Senegal -- 3 “We Wear White Coats, Not Uniforms”: Abortion Surveillance in Hospitals -- 4 When Abortion Does Not Count: Interpreting PAC Data -- Conclusion: Evidence, Harm Reduction, and Reproductive Justice -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: Cases of Admitted and Suspected Induced Abortions -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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 PAC’s 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, Suh’s ethnography of PAC in Senegal makes a critical contribution to studies of global health, population and development, African studies, and reproductive justice.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781978804586
10.36019/9781978804586 doi
2020042810
Abortion services--Senegal.
Maternal health services--Senegal.
Medical policy--Senegal.
Reproductive health--Senegal.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
global health, medical sociology, abortion, post-abortion, PAC, family planning, Women's health, health, pregnancy, birth, African studies, population, development, maternal mortality, unsafe abortions, reproductive justice, abortion surveillance, induced abortions, Senegal, post-abortion care, reproductive health, health politics.
RG734 / .S84 2021
362.1988/8009663