‘A bothersome death’—Narrative accounts of infant mortality in Cape Town, South Africa

Lerer, Leonard; Butchart, Alexander; Blanche, Martin Terre

doi:10.1016/0277-9536(94)00164-o

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“…Open-ended questions are often considered a more natural way of conducting an interview and can be more comfortable for respondents (Lerer et al, 1995 section may help make the conversation more relaxed. They also asked why, if the COD was obvious in the case, say of drowning, it was necessary to ask a list of symptom questions.…”

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New challenges for verbal autopsy: Considering the ethical and social implications of verbal autopsy methods in routine health information systems

Gouda

Flaxman

Brolan

et al. 2017

Social Science & Medicine

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Verbal autopsy (VA) methods are designed to collect cause-of-death information from populations where many deaths occur outside of health facilities and where death certification is weak or absent. A VA consists of an interview with a relative or carer of a recently deceased individual in order to gather information on the signs and symptoms the decedent presented with prior to death. These details are then used to determine and assign a likely cause-of-death. At a population level this information can be invaluable to help guide prioritisation and direct health policy and services. To date VAs have largely been restricted to research contexts but many countries are now venturing to incorporate VA methods into routine civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. Given the sensitive nature of death, however, there are a number of ethical, legal and social issues that should be considered when scaling-up VAs, particularly in the cross-cultural and socio-economically disadvantaged environments in which they are typically applied. Considering each step of the VA process this paper provides a narrative review of the social context of VA methods. Harnessing the experiences of applying and rolling out VAs as part of routine CRVS systems in a number of low and middle income countries, we identify potential issues that countries and implementing institutions need to consider when incorporating VAs into CRVS systems and point to areas that could benefit from further research and deliberation.

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New challenges for verbal autopsy: Considering the ethical and social implications of verbal autopsy methods in routine health information systems

Gouda

Flaxman

Brolan

et al. 2017

Social Science & Medicine

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“…class, social, political, technical) distort or contribute to the creation of certain types of knowledge. Without listing the many Whig, Marxist, and liberal humanist analyses that can be found on any library shelf, examples of the more 'radical' approaches to have found favour in the South African setting of attention include: the medical anthropological models of Kleinman (1980) and Scheper-Hughes (1990), which inform the work of local writers such as Rogers (1992), Lerer and Scheper-Hughes (in press), and Swartz (1985; the social constructionist approach of Berger and Luckmann (1967), Gergen (1982), and Shotter (1984) as it informs the works of Levett (1987), or Butchart and Seedat (1991); the method of discourse analysis developed by Potter and Wetherell (1987) and applied locally by Lerer, Butchart and Terre Blanche (1995), or Scrooby (1994); and Bulhan's (1985) neo-Fanonian methodology for understanding the dynamics of colonial domination and revolution (e.g. Nell & Butchart, 1989;Seedat, 1993).…”

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Objects without Origins: Foucault in South African Socio-Medical Science

Butchart

1997

South African Journal of Psychology

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Despite being freely available in English language translation since the late 1970s, the writings of Michel Foucault have only faintly imprinted themselves within the work of South African socio-medical scientists. Where references to Foucault do stray beyond mere name dropping, they frequently distort the lines of his thought by pressing it into precisely the liberal-humanist and Marxist analyses Foucault himself was so concerned to dispel. How is this possible, and what is being done by this failure to accurately understand and apply Foucault? Deploying a Foucaultian methodology of strategic questioning, this paper explores the phenomenon to conclude that the failure of Foucault in South African socio-medical discourse is only apparent, the very impermeability of these disciplines to his ideas itself confirmation for the Foucaultian thesis that while sovereignty is the preserve of an elite, discipline is within the grasp of us all.

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“…Postscript ■ 179 approaches to have found favour in the South African setting o f atten tion include: the medical anthropological models o f Kleinman (1980) and Scheper-Hughes (1990), which inform the w ork o f local writers such as Rogers (1992), Lerer and Scheper-Hughes (in press), and Swartz (1985and Swartz ( , 1988and Swartz ( , 1991; the social constructionist approach o f Berger and Luckm ann (1967), Gergen (1982), and Shotter (1984) as it inform s the w orks o f Levett (1987), or Butchart and Seedat (1991); the m ethod o f discourse analysis developed by Potter and Wetherell (1987) and applied locally by Lerer et al (1995). or Scrooby (1994); and Bulhan's (1985) neo-Fanonian m ethodology for understanding the dynam ics o f colonial dom ination and revolution (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%