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In this chapter, we examine how the history of risk in maternal and newborn care (MNC) resulted in a system for identifying risk that assumes health, morbidity, and mortality reside within the pregnant and birthing body. Rethinking this history, we ask: How does the system of MNC itself contribute to risk? What happens when we shift the gaze from broken bodies to broken MNC systems? If the source of health, morbidity, and mortality lie outside the body, arising from the MNC system itself, does it make sense to organise MNC around individual risk profiles? How might the recognition of MNC as a source of harm, enable us to optimise MNC and improve care outcomes?

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From Broken Bodies to Broken Systems: Rethinking Risk in Maternal and Newborn Care

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    2026年

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  • Bahareh Goodarzi,
  • Melissa Cheyney,
  • Raymond De Vries

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In this chapter, we examine how the history of risk in maternal and newborn care (MNC) resulted in a system for identifying risk that assumes health, morbidity, and mortality reside within the pregnant and birthing body. Rethinking this history, we ask: How does the system of MNC itself contribute to risk? What happens when we shift the gaze from broken bodies to broken MNC systems? If the source of health, morbidity, and mortality lie outside the body, arising from the MNC system itself, does it make sense to organise MNC around individual risk profiles? How might the recognition of MNC as a source of harm, enable us to optimise MNC and improve care outcomes?