Necropolíticas e adoecimento: genocídio negro, gênero e sofrimento

Birthing hostages: Haitian women's stories of maternal medicine, debt, and hospital detention

“…Although global health organizations and national health campaigns strongly encourage hospital births, over 63% of deliveries in Haiti still occur outside clinical facilities (Raymondville et al., 2020). Numerous studies seek to understand the barriers to hospital birth, which span high costs, inadequate accessibility, and an expressed distrust of medical establishments’ methods and intentions—even as women articulate needing better access (Barnes‐Josiah et al., 1998; Castro, 2008; Cianelli et al., 2014; Alex & Whitty‐Rogers, 2017). 6 Additionally, pregnant women worry about experiencing shame, emotional harm, and social isolation in clinical spaces (Brodwin, 1997; Dev et al., 2019).…”