Rewriting abortion: Deploying medical records in jurisdictional negotiation over a forbidden practice in Senegal

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 108, Issue , 2014, Pages 20-33

  Suh, Siri ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Abortion; Boundary work; Ethnography; Medicine; Professions; Records; Senegal; Sociology

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; CULTURAL INFLUENCE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITAL SECTOR; LEGISLATION; LEGISLATIVE IMPLEMENTATION; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; ETHNOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; ILLEGAL ABORTION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RECORD; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENEGAL; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; STRATEGIC PLANNING; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; FEMALE; INDUCED ABORTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

SENEGAL;

ABORTION, INDUCED; ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; NEGOTIATING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SENEGAL;

EID: 84898677954     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.02.030     Document Type: Article

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