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Scheper-Hughes notes that the doctors and clergy did little to help the poor children born in the shantytown, and blames the high infant mortality rate on a combination of poverty, malnutrition, and lack of access to healthcare. She suggests that the mothers' apparent "indifference" to their babies' suffering may be a survival strategy in an environment where death is so common.

According to Scheper-Hughes in "Mother's Love: Death WithouWeeping," the Doctors