S10 | E99 Global Maternal Health and Lessons From Birth in Africa with Medical Anthropologist, Dr. Adrienne Strong

We Go There Podcast

Dr. Adrienne Strong is a medical anthropologist whose research is primarily based in Tanzania, concentrating on maternal mortality, nursing, hospital ethnography, and theories of care. She is the author of the 2020 book Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania. Dr Strong shares her unorthodox birth story, the importance of self-advocating and what we can learn from birth practices in developing countries.

Dr. Adrienne Shares:

1. The extent to which women in lower resource settings still struggle to get adequate care during pregnancy and birth
2. How Adrienne’s experience in Tanzania has shaped her perspective on her own pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding journey, and approach to parenting a 9 month old
3. How she got into this work as a medical anthropologist
4. What we can learn from other cultures in terms of improving birth culture in North America and other western countries

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