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SUMMARY:The Humanities Institute presents “Partial Stories: Maternal Death From
Six Angles”
DESCRIPTION:\nBy the early twenty-first century\, about one woman in\n\n
twelve could expect to die of a pregnancy or childbirth\n\ncomplication
in Malawi. Specific deaths became object\n\nlessons. Explanatory stories
circulated through hospitals\n\nand villages\, proliferating among a ra
nge of practitioners:\n\nnurse-midwives\, traditional birth attendants\,
doctors\,\n\nepidemiologists\, herbalists. Was biology to blame?\n\nEco
nomic underdevelopment? Immoral behavior?\n\nTradition? Were the dead th
emselves at fault?\n\nIn Partial Stories\, Claire L. Wendland considers
these explanations\n\nfor maternal death\, showing how they reflect comp
eting visions\n\nof the past and shared concerns about social change. Dr
awing on\n\nextended fieldwork\, Wendland reveals how efforts to legitim
ate\n\na single story as the authoritative version can render care more\
n\ndangerous than it might otherwise be. Historical\, biological\,\n\nte
chnological\, ethical\, statistical\, and political perspectives on deat
h\n\nusually circulate in different expert communities and different bod
ies\n\nof literature. Here\, Wendland considers them together\, illumina
ting\n\ndilemmas of maternity care in contexts of acute change\, chronic
\n\nscarcity\, and endemic inequity within Malawi and beyond.\n\nThis ev
ent is co-sponsored by the Social Science Research Institute\n\nand the
Department of Women&rsquo\;s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies.\n\nFor mo
re details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_partial-stories/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:By the early tw
enty-first century, about one woman in
twelve could expect to die o
f a pregnancy or childbirth
complication in Malawi. Specific deaths
became object
lessons. Explanatory stories circulated through hosp
itals
and villages, proliferating among a range of practitioners:nurse-midwives, traditional birth attendants, doctors,
epidemio
logists, herbalists. Was biology to blame?
Economic underdevelopmen
t? Immoral behavior?
Tradition? Were the dead themselves at fault?<
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In Partial Stories, Claire L. Wendland considers these expl
anations
for maternal death, showing how they reflect competing vis
ions
of the past and shared concerns about social change. Drawing o
n
extended fieldwork, Wendland reveals how efforts to legitimate
a single story as the authoritative version can render care more
dangerous than it might otherwise be. Historical, biological,
tech
nological, ethical, statistical, and political perspectives on death
usually circulate in different expert communities and different bodies
of literature. Here, Wendland considers them together, illuminatin
g
dilemmas of maternity care in contexts of acute change, chronicscarcity, and endemic inequity within Malawi and beyond.
This
event is co-sponsored by the Social Science Research Institute
and
the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Fo
r more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/hi_partial-stories/
URL:https://hi.psu.edu/initiatives-and-programs/faculty-invites-events/
LOCATION:Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library
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