"Beautiful Registrations": Metrics and Prenatal Care in Rural Bahia, Brazil.

IF 1.5 3区社会学 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Medical Anthropology Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Epub Date: 2024-01-11 DOI:10.1080/01459740.2023.2301388

Laura Caballe-Climent

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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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"美丽的注册"：巴西巴伊亚州农村地区的衡量标准和产前护理。

在巴西，产前护理质量不高一直是一个令人担忧的问题。在这项研究中，我分析了产前临床接触中发生的动态变化，并阐明了通过登记和监测来制定指标的要求是如何认可一种官僚主义护理形式的。这种护理形式是在医疗资源稀缺和匮乏的背景下发展起来的，医护人员试图控制不确定性。官僚主义护理以风险概念为主导，以衡量实践为中心，并被高估的技术所饱和，这强化了对农村黑人妇女的剥夺和污名化。

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Medical Anthropology Multiple-

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