Breathing through the rage: Maternal refusal as ethnographic method
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article theorizes maternal rage as an ethnographic method and affective archive, drawing on interviews with birthing people of color navigating medical neglect, obstetric violence, and postpartum abandonment. Rather than treating rage as an excess or failure of care, I frame it as a form of witnessing and refusal, a bodily record of harm ...
Lalaie Ameeriar
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Pre-gestational BMI, obstetric violence, and perinatal mental health: a retrospective cohort study. [PDF]
EClinicalMedicineMartínez-Rodríguez S +5 more
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Extracting vitalities: Cuts in Indigenous women's bodies‐territories (Brazil)
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I explore the connections between the medicalization of childbirth and environmental devastation through Guarani‐Mbyá understandings of life and the living. I argue that the cuts made to Guarani‐Mbyá women's vaginas (episiotomies) in Brazilian hospitals are experienced and situated on the same cosmopolitical level as the cuts ...
Maria Paula Prates
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Perception of obstetric violence and risk of post-traumatic stress disorder at 6 months postpartum: an observational study. [PDF]
Front PsycholOrtiz-Esquinas I +5 more
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, we conceptualize how Davis’ two concepts of uneven reproduction and obstetric racism—both rooted in the US context—are effectuated in the Netherlands. We consider uneven reproduction to consist of bio‐ and necropolitics, namely the management and regulation of a population's bodies, life and death.
Rodante van der Waal +3 more
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Concealed coexistence: Reproductive choice and coercion in Timor‐Leste
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Choice is a central concept in reproductive rights. However, a discourse of choice in reproductive health can also mask precisely the act it aims to protect against: coercion. Whilst choice has been explored extensively in studies of reproductive rights and justice, understandings of coercion are fragmented and under‐theorized.
Laura Burke
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Anaemia Among Mother–Child Dyads in India: Trends, Drivers, and Future Projections
Maternal &Child Nutrition, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Anaemia among mothers and their children is a widespread public health challenge with profound consequences for individuals and societies. While anaemia has been studied separately in women and children, there remains a literature gap examining anaemia in mother‐child dyads, limiting insights on interventions that may simultaneously address ...
Sarang Pedgaonker +8 more
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Neighbourhood Poverty Histories and Severe Maternal Morbidity Across California Census Tracts
Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) and its racial and ethnic inequities are the result of a mixture of risk factors ranging from clinical comorbidities to socio‐economic contexts. One under‐explored dimension is neighbourhood contexts.
Sai Ramya Maddali +6 more
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Correction: Perception of obstetric violence and risk of post-traumatic stress disorder at 6 months postpartum: an observational study. [PDF]
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