A E Strong
Biographic Data
| ID | 36027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A E Strong |
| GIVEN NAMES | A E |
| FAMILY NAME | Strong |
| SIGNATURE | STRONG A E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6005-2572 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“The pain is not real, it's feki”
Pain always begs a response, yet biomedical providers everywhere struggle with how to know and respond to pain. Based on collaborative ethnographic work in a Tanzanian hospital, we explore healthcare workers’ sociocultural perceptions of pain and pain care practices to show how pain is recognized and distinguished in the busy clinical setting. Influenced by the socially productive nature and potential of fakes, we present the category of feki pai…
Hidden Threats
Bureaucracy and Surveillance-Care
Based on fieldwork in maternity wards in Tanzania, I argue that the partograph - a graphical representation of a pregnant woman's labor - far exceeds its intended role as tracking and surveillance of labor progress. Through surveillance and its concomitant documentation, nurses, especially, also utilize this document to co-create care for themselves and their colleagues. These forms of care proliferate largely unseen by global health systems but …
IPhone Pregnancies
People trying to conceive (TTC) often rely on accessible technologies and associated apps to track aspects of menstrual cycles. We explore this growing phenomenon from the perspective of self-testing as surveillance-care for the TTC individual or couple and their current and future fertility and pregnancy. Through an analysis of anonymous fora posts, we argue that surveillance-care provides those TTC with a sense of community, as well as agency a…
Over-looked Spaces
At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle, WA, we organized a session called "Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health." This introduction to our special issue represents a sustained conversation among panelists and other scholars regarding the complicated ways that surveillance and care play upon each other in our own ethnographic research and what we might learn from them
Pain Management
Anthropology has long engaged in explorations of pain as part of the human condition. Sociocultural values and norms shape expressions and understandings of pain, as well as pain management practices globally. Here, we focus on physical pain to highlight the intersections of race, gender, class, and position in the global neoliberal economy as major themes in shaping attitudes toward pain and accessibility of pain management. Pain is always inter…
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Bodies in peril
Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in maternity settings in Tanzania and Pakistan, we argue that 'bodywork' condenses all politically and practically at stake for maternal healthcare providers. Our research confronts how global health programmes expect paramedical providers working on the frontlines of obstetrics to implement interventions without also attending to violent everyday realities of providing care amidst structural constraint…
Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care
Globally, the widespread occurrence of disrespect and abuse (D&A) on maternity wards is well-documented. Using ethnography and cultural consensus analysis we explore how the practice of midwives hitting women who are in the second stage of labor (pushing) has become a locally accepted form of care in Tanzania if a baby's life appears to be at risk. This analysis interrogates the deep uncertainty of birth outcomes in this setting that may motivate…
Using paired cultural modelling and cultural consensus analysis to maximize programme suitability in local contexts
Cultural consensus analysis (CCA) is a quantitative method for determining cohesion in a specified cultural domain and cultural modelling (CM) is a method for designing and testing connections within a cultural domain based on qualitative data collection. After a description of the methods, and examples of their application, we provide a description of three main points in the programme planning, implementation and evaluation cycle at which the m…
Causes and Effects of Occupational Risk for Healthcare Workers on the Maternity Ward of a Tanzanian Hospital
In the Rukwa region of Tanzania, healthcare providers often work in very low-resource environments that lack equipment and the tools needed for patient care. Additionally, resources for protecting the healthcare workers from occupational exposure to infectious diseases is also often lacking. Against the background of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and continued resource scarcity in the Mawingu Regional Hospital, healthcare workers ex…
Working in scarcity
Sociocultural aspects of risk to pregnant women during the 2013–2015 multinational Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa
Researchers reflect on sociocultural aspects of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and critically analyze the epidemic's effects on pregnant mothers and their babies. We address structural inequalities contributing to poor maternal health in lower-income countries, while reflecting on how the Ebola outbreak highlights the still-marginalized role of pregnant women. Drawing on prior research in West and East Africa, we discuss health care providers'…
Working in scarcity
Bureaucracy and Surveillance-Care
Based on fieldwork in maternity wards in Tanzania, I argue that the partograph - a graphical representation of a pregnant woman's labor - far exceeds its intended role as tracking and surveillance of labor progress. Through surveillance and its concomitant documentation, nurses, especially, also utilize this document to co-create care for themselves and their colleagues. These forms of care proliferate largely unseen by global health systems but …
Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care
Globally, the widespread occurrence of disrespect and abuse (D&A) on maternity wards is well-documented. Using ethnography and cultural consensus analysis we explore how the practice of midwives hitting women who are in the second stage of labor (pushing) has become a locally accepted form of care in Tanzania if a baby's life appears to be at risk. This analysis interrogates the deep uncertainty of birth outcomes in this setting that may motivate…
Using paired cultural modelling and cultural consensus analysis to maximize programme suitability in local contexts
Cultural consensus analysis (CCA) is a quantitative method for determining cohesion in a specified cultural domain and cultural modelling (CM) is a method for designing and testing connections within a cultural domain based on qualitative data collection. After a description of the methods, and examples of their application, we provide a description of three main points in the programme planning, implementation and evaluation cycle at which the m…
Sociocultural aspects of risk to pregnant women during the 2013–2015 multinational Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa
Researchers reflect on sociocultural aspects of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and critically analyze the epidemic's effects on pregnant mothers and their babies. We address structural inequalities contributing to poor maternal health in lower-income countries, while reflecting on how the Ebola outbreak highlights the still-marginalized role of pregnant women. Drawing on prior research in West and East Africa, we discuss health care providers'…
Working in scarcity
Causes and Effects of Occupational Risk for Healthcare Workers on the Maternity Ward of a Tanzanian Hospital
In the Rukwa region of Tanzania, healthcare providers often work in very low-resource environments that lack equipment and the tools needed for patient care. Additionally, resources for protecting the healthcare workers from occupational exposure to infectious diseases is also often lacking. Against the background of the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak in West Africa and continued resource scarcity in the Mawingu Regional Hospital, healthcare workers ex…
Using paired cultural modelling and cultural consensus analysis to maximize programme suitability in local contexts
Cultural consensus analysis (CCA) is a quantitative method for determining cohesion in a specified cultural domain and cultural modelling (CM) is a method for designing and testing connections within a cultural domain based on qualitative data collection. After a description of the methods, and examples of their application, we provide a description of three main points in the programme planning, implementation and evaluation cycle at which the m…
Re-examining Norms of Disrespect and Abuse in the Second Stage of Labor in Tanzanian Maternity Care
Globally, the widespread occurrence of disrespect and abuse (D&A) on maternity wards is well-documented. Using ethnography and cultural consensus analysis we explore how the practice of midwives hitting women who are in the second stage of labor (pushing) has become a locally accepted form of care in Tanzania if a baby's life appears to be at risk. This analysis interrogates the deep uncertainty of birth outcomes in this setting that may motivate…
Bodies in peril
Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in maternity settings in Tanzania and Pakistan, we argue that 'bodywork' condenses all politically and practically at stake for maternal healthcare providers. Our research confronts how global health programmes expect paramedical providers working on the frontlines of obstetrics to implement interventions without also attending to violent everyday realities of providing care amidst structural constraint…
Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Hidden Threats
Bureaucracy and Surveillance-Care
Based on fieldwork in maternity wards in Tanzania, I argue that the partograph - a graphical representation of a pregnant woman's labor - far exceeds its intended role as tracking and surveillance of labor progress. Through surveillance and its concomitant documentation, nurses, especially, also utilize this document to co-create care for themselves and their colleagues. These forms of care proliferate largely unseen by global health systems but …
IPhone Pregnancies
People trying to conceive (TTC) often rely on accessible technologies and associated apps to track aspects of menstrual cycles. We explore this growing phenomenon from the perspective of self-testing as surveillance-care for the TTC individual or couple and their current and future fertility and pregnancy. Through an analysis of anonymous fora posts, we argue that surveillance-care provides those TTC with a sense of community, as well as agency a…
Over-looked Spaces
At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle, WA, we organized a session called "Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health." This introduction to our special issue represents a sustained conversation among panelists and other scholars regarding the complicated ways that surveillance and care play upon each other in our own ethnographic research and what we might learn from them
Pain Management
Anthropology has long engaged in explorations of pain as part of the human condition. Sociocultural values and norms shape expressions and understandings of pain, as well as pain management practices globally. Here, we focus on physical pain to highlight the intersections of race, gender, class, and position in the global neoliberal economy as major themes in shaping attitudes toward pain and accessibility of pain management. Pain is always inter…
“The pain is not real, it's feki”
Pain always begs a response, yet biomedical providers everywhere struggle with how to know and respond to pain. Based on collaborative ethnographic work in a Tanzanian hospital, we explore healthcare workers’ sociocultural perceptions of pain and pain care practices to show how pain is recognized and distinguished in the busy clinical setting. Influenced by the socially productive nature and potential of fakes, we present the category of feki pai…
Health care (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (5 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Socioeconomics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economic growth (3 works)