Maternal health fits awkwardly within medical history, contemporary medical provision and epidemiological transition theory. Maternity is not a disease, yet it is one of the primary causes of death for women of reproductive age in much of the developing world; the lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth for a woman from sub-Saharan Africa is one in thirty-six.¹ How maternal deaths have been defined has varied significantly over time, as the category expanded beyond deaths immediately connected to childbirth to include all deaths related to pregnancy and post-delivery complications within 42 days of a birth. Although the medical subfield
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