"Beautiful Registrations": Metrics and Prenatal Care in Rural Bahia, Brazil.
Med Anthropol
; 43(3): 233-246, 2024 04 02.
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| ID: mdl-38206566
ABSTRACT
In Brazil, lack of quality in the delivery of prenatal care is a persistent concern. In this study, I analyze the dynamics taking place in the prenatal clinical encounter, and illuminate how the requirement to produce metrics through registration and monitoring endorses a form of bureaucratic care. This form of care develops in a context characterized by scarcity and a lack of medical resources, where healthcare professionals attempt to contain uncertainty. Ruled by notions of risk, centered in measuring practices, and saturated by an overvaluation of technology, bureaucratic care reinforces the disenfranchizement and stigmatization of Black rural women.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Cuidado Pré-Natal
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População Rural
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Pregnancy
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Brasil
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Med Anthropol
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Reino Unido
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos