MIDWIFERY, MATERNAL HEALTH AND RACISM: A conversation with Jennie Joseph.

What does maternal health mean in the USA? The answer to that depends on who you are. If you are white, the US maternal health is among the worst in the world. If you are Black, it's even worse. Jennie Joseph is a midwife based in central Florida who has been practicing since 1981. In addition to being a midwife she's had to learn to be an anti-racist organizer and a campaigner on many issues realted to her work.

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TIME STAMPS:

0:00 Introduction
2:37 Jennie's background
5:55 US hostility to midwives
8:03 Colonial vs traditional medicine
9:40 What is midwifery?
11:14 Two health care systems, Black and White
15:28 Materno-toxicity and Serena Williams
20:58 Does midwifery lead to better outcomes?
23:37 Traditional Midwifery
28:00 The failure of the medical industrial complex
29:12 Doing what we can instead of taking on the whole system
32:07 Business vs health
34:03 Building a movement
35:50 Declining US health
41:08 How can we do better?
42:44 What's next?

Jennie Joseph's Practice: https://jenniejoseph.com/about/

Serena Williams: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/20/opinions/protect-mother-pregnancy-williams-opinion