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Post-Abortion Care and Global Reproductive Health Politics in Senegal
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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.

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SIRI SUH is an assistant professor of sociology at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Release date NZ
June 18th, 2021
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  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
5 b-w images, 9 tables
Interest Age
From 18 to 99 years
Pages
226
Dimensions
152x229x18
ISBN-13
9781978804548
Product ID
33918397

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