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Podcast: We Go There Podcast
Episode: S10 | E99 Global Maternal Health and Lessons From Birth in Africa with Medical Anthropologist, Dr. Adrienne Strong
Description: 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:
The extent to which women in lower resource settings still struggle to get adequate care during pregnancy and birth
How Adrienne’s experience in Tanzania has shaped her pe...