Waiting in a Place of Impossible Demands
Surveillance-Care in a Tanzanian Maternity Waiting Home
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4564372 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Megan D Cogburn (0000-0001-7022-303X, University of Florida, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 230-244 |
| Publication date | 2025-04-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2025.2475926 |
| PMID | 40065598 |
| OpenAlex | W4408315150 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
Today in rural Tanzania, nurses instruct pregnant women to go to maternity waiting homes (MWH), spaces of surveillance-care, long before due dates. Envisioned as a place for risk in policies of global safe motherhood, ethnography shows how the MWH becomes a place of risk to pregnant women and nurses. Negotiations at the MWH show how surveillance-care can be used to control and reinforce hierarchies - inadvertently creating risk - but also, in surprising ways, mitigate risk by insisting on other forms of care. Surveillance-care is both a tool of governance and a means to assess and bring about kinship and care
Business · Economic growth · Health care · Maternity care · Medical emergency · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Tanzania · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Nursing · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Sex work and related issues
Curing their ills
Improvising Medicine
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
Unsafe Motherhood
No increase in use of hospitals for childbirth in Tanzania over 25 years
The things we believe
Uneven reproduction
A new use for an old tool
Care as Virtue, Care as Critical Frame
Narratives of responsibility
Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research
A Colonial Lexicon
Maternal mortality and the problem of accessibility to obstetric care; the strategy of maternity waiting homes
Homebirth fines and health cards in rural Tanzania
Hospital ethnography
Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care
Community, Citizenship, and the third Way
Struggles for Control
"To Open Oneself Is a Poor Woman's Trouble"
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |