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{"id":50271,"date":"2024-12-12T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=50271"},"modified":"2024-12-11T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T18:51:23","slug":"midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/12\/12\/midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwife Photographs in “Birthing in Alabama” at Cooper Hewitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Circulating Now<em> welcomes guest blogger Lori A. Brown, curator and architect of <\/em>Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction<em>, a part of the <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/exhibitions\/making-home-smithsonian-design-triennial:event-exhib-6710\">Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial<\/a> <em>exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York<\/em><em>. The exhibition includes collection material from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) made available through its <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/hmd\/about\/conservation.html#loans\"><em>institutional loan program<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While perusing the Digital Collections of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), I came across photographs of <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.nlm.nih.gov\/?f%5Bdrep2.format%5D%5B%5D=&q=Eugenia+Broughton\">Eugenia Broughton<\/a>, an African American <a href=\"https:\/\/medlineplus.gov\/ency\/article\/002000.htm\">nurse-midwife<\/a> working in Berkeley County, South Carolina in the 1950s. I knew immediately I had found moments from the past that are speaking to the present.<\/p>\n<p>As an invited participant for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/exhibitions\/making-home-smithsonian-design-triennial:event-exhib-6710\"><em>Making Home: Smithsonian Design Triennial<\/em><\/a> exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, I was asked to respond to design\u2019s role in shaping home. My installation, \u201cBirthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction,\u201d in collaboration with Dr. Yashica Robinson and Trish Cafferky, makes visible the history of birthing from 1865 to the present in order to raise awareness about the extremely precarious situation of pregnant people in Alabama, and the challenges Dr. Robinson and others are encountering in trying to open home-like birthing facilities with a <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/tag\/midwifery\/\">midwifery<\/a> model of care across the state. The more informed I became about the scope and scale of the current impediments to providing birthing care in Alabama, the more I realized what better way to understand today\u2019s struggles for women\u2019s reproductive healthcare than to contextualize and visualize the present through the past.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50305\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50305\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50305\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/12\/12\/midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt\/makinghome_brown_1726_002\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?fit=1600%2C1067&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1067\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"11","credit":"Elliot Goldstein","camera":"Canon EOS 5DS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1708553013","copyright":"This image may not be reproduced without authorization from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum","focal_length":"11","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"5","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"MakingHome_Brown_1726_002\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, Making Home\u2014Design Triennial Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York<br \/>\nPhoto by Elliot Goldstein \u00a9 Smithsonian Institution<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?fit=840%2C560&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-50305 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?resize=840%2C560&ssl=1\" alt=\"A wide angle view of the Birthing in Alabama exhibition in 2024 at Cooper Hewitt.\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?resize=768%2C512&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?resize=840%2C560&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50305\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction<em>,” Making Home\u2014Design Triennial<\/em> <br \/>Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York<br \/><em>Photo by Elliot Goldstein \u00a9 Smithsonian Institution<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50306\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50306\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50306\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/12\/12\/midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt\/maternal-deaths-1957_q0000135157\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?fit=862%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"862,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>\u201cMaternal Deaths, 1957,\u201d Map from the 1957 Annual Report of the Alabama State Department of Public Health<br \/>\nCourtesy Alabama Department of Public Health<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?fit=216%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?fit=736%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50306\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?resize=216%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"A state map divided by county indicating more than 4 times as many Black maternal deaths than White maternal deaths in Alabama in 1957.\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?resize=216%2C300&ssl=1 216w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?resize=736%2C1024&ssl=1 736w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?resize=768%2C1069&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?resize=840%2C1169&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/maternal-deaths-1957_Q0000135157.jpg?w=862&ssl=1 862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cMaternal Deaths, 1957,\u201d Map from the <em>1957 Annual Report of the Alabama State Department of Public Health<\/em><br \/><em>Courtesy Alabama Department of Public Health<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The larger question for me, as an architect, is how space participates in birthing and reproductive healthcare, and in particular how places influence the quality-of-care people receive. I want this research to help inform the public about the sorts of spaces that have historically been used over time for birthing care\u2014from originally giving birth in the home, moving to the hospital as the professionalization of medicine was taking place, and more currently back to home-like spaces for some low-risk pregnancies. I also want to help audiences understand how, across time, policies and laws shape space and access. Ultimately, I want them to ask the question: What can we learn from the past that could inform our reading of the present and possible futures?<\/p>\n<p>The legacies of slavery and segregation during the <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2022\/09\/08\/jim-crow-in-the-asylum-psychiatry-and-civil-rights-in-the-american-south\/\">Jim Crow South<\/a> created and sustained a healthcare system that was separate and extremely unequal\u2014one that continues to have long-lasting influences today, as we visualize through the installation. However, what I also discovered, and what was made evident through the photographs preserved in <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.nlm.nih.gov\/?f%5Bdrep2.format%5D%5B%5D=&q=Eugenia+Broughton\">NLM Digital Collections<\/a>, is that there is a rich and powerful history that centers on the <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/11\/14\/assailed-at-home-champions-abroad-the-acnms-push-for-maternal-healthcare-advancements-in-nigeria\/\">history of Black midwives<\/a>\u2014\u201cgrannie midwives\u201d as they were called\u2014which is a critical part of women\u2019s reproductive healthcare history. Providing care in peoples\u2019 homes, these midwives traveled around their communities and delivered life-saving care for vast populations across the state. Without the thousands of midwives that once practiced, Black women would have had almost no access to care whatsoever.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50300\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50300\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50300\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/12\/12\/midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt\/midwife_101442054\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?fit=1600%2C1291&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1291\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"midwife_101442054\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Eugenia Broughton examines a pregnant woman, ca. 1950s<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #101442054<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?fit=300%2C242&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?fit=840%2C678&ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?resize=840%2C678&ssl=1\" alt=\"A Black woman conducting an examination of a pregnant Black woman.\" width=\"840\" height=\"678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?resize=1024%2C826&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?resize=300%2C242&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?resize=768%2C620&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?resize=1536%2C1239&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?resize=840%2C678&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442054.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50300\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Broughton examines a pregnant woman, ca. 1950s<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/101442054\"><em>National Library of Medicine #101442054<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>These questions are what brought me to the National Library of Medicine at NIH. Over the past almost ten months, research assistants and I delved deeply into questions focusing on what the history of healthcare for pregnant people in this country looked like, and specifically, how does the home historically\u2014and home-like spaces and the design of birthing spaces\u2014factor into this history?\u00a0 Research confirms that the quality of space matters for better health outcomes, and that the home is a critical historical space in birthing care for the past, present, and possible future. There has been a recent resurgence in people seeking to give birth at home and in home-like spaces. Given that the project is located in the South, it was imperative to explore how race and class were, and remain, major structural barriers to who receives what sort of care and where they were able to access this care.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50302\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50302\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50302\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/12\/12\/midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt\/midwife-101442048\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?fit=1600%2C1265&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1265\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"midwife-101442048\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Eugenia Broughton, standing outside a mobile clinic with patients, ca 1950s<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #101442048<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?fit=300%2C237&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?fit=840%2C664&ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50302\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?resize=840%2C664&ssl=1\" alt=\"Uniformed Black health workers stand with Black clients outside a trailer labeled Reformed Episcopal Church, Berkeley Co. Public Health Department.\" width=\"840\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?resize=1024%2C810&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?resize=300%2C237&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?resize=768%2C607&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?resize=1536%2C1214&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?resize=840%2C664&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife-101442048.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50302\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Broughton, standing outside a mobile clinic with patients, ca 1950s<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/101442048\"><em>National Library of Medicine #101442048<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The photographs of Eugenia Broughton, an African American nurse-midwife in Berkeley County, South Carolina, were exciting to discover because they highlight ingenuity in using the spaces that were available\u2014even considered prosaic at that time\u2014to provide access to birthing care. The Mobile Clinic of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Berkely County, South Carolina illustrates how access to healthcare was made possible for rural and remote regions of underserved Black communities across South Carolina. The places where Broughton provided medical attention make visible a steely determination that did not cave to state-sanctioned racism. I had not imagined how far back in time mobile care was deployed for healthcare access to rural communities. I was particularly struck to discover that mobile clinics were used at this point in our history. \u00a0In fact, one of the first instances recorded is in 1920 when a nurse joined a mobile agricultural education vehicle for Tuskegee University\u2019s Moveable School (formerly Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute). \u00a0The intimacy created within the interior of the mobile clinic would, I imagine, assuage someone\u2019s hesitations about receiving care in such a public space.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50299\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50299\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50299\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/12\/12\/midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt\/midwife_101442047\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?fit=1600%2C1340&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1340\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"midwife_101442047\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Eugenia Broughton checks a patient’s blood pressure inside the Mobile Clinic of the Reformed Episcopal Church, Berkeley Co. Public Health Department, ca 1950s<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #101442047<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?fit=300%2C251&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?fit=840%2C704&ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50299\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?resize=840%2C704&ssl=1\" alt=\"Inside the Mobile Clinic of the Reformed Episcopal Church, Berkeley Co. Public Health Department which has chairs, curtained windows, cabinets and counters, a Black woman holding an infant has her blood pressure taken by Eugenia Broughton.\" width=\"840\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?resize=1024%2C858&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?resize=300%2C251&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?resize=768%2C643&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?resize=1536%2C1286&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?resize=840%2C704&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442047.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Broughton checks a patient’s blood pressure inside the Mobile Clinic of the Reformed Episcopal Church, Berkeley Co. Public Health Department, ca 1950s<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/resource.nlm.nih.gov\/101442047\"><em>National Library of Medicine #101442047<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also included in our \u201cBirthing in Alabama\u201d installation is the exterior image of a simple wood-clad clinic, with Miss Broughton and a patient on the front steps. Although the image captures the extreme poverty of the area, the palpable determination in bringing healthcare to some of the most rural members of society speaks volumes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50301\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50301\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50301\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/12\/12\/midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt\/midwife_101442058\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?fit=1600%2C1299&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1299\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"midwife_101442058\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Eugenia Broughton speaks to a patient on the steps of a rural clinic, ca. 1950s<br \/>\nNational Library of Medicine #101442058<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?fit=300%2C244&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?fit=840%2C682&ssl=1\" class=\"size-large wp-image-50301\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?resize=840%2C682&ssl=1\" alt=\"A black woman speaks to another at the door of a one room wooden shed on concrete blocks.\" width=\"840\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?resize=1024%2C831&ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?resize=300%2C244&ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?resize=768%2C624&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?resize=1536%2C1247&ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?resize=840%2C682&ssl=1 840w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/midwife_101442058.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 840px) 100vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50301\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eugenia Broughton speaks to a patient on the steps of a rural clinic, ca. 1950s<br \/><em>National Library of Medicine #101442058<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction<\/em> raises awareness about the historical challenges experienced by pregnant people in gaining access to birthing care and brings the voices of those dedicated to providing this care today front and center. See it as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/exhibitions\/making-home-smithsonian-design-triennial:event-exhib-6710\">Making Home<\/a>, the seventh installment in the Design Triennial series established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through a design lens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jetpack-slideshow-noscript robots-nocontent\">This slideshow requires JavaScript.<\/p><div id=\"gallery-50271-1-slideshow\" class=\"jetpack-slideshow-window jetpack-slideshow jetpack-slideshow-black\" data-trans=\"fade\" data-autostart=\"1\" data-gallery=\"[{"src":"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/12\\\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_001.jpg?fit=840%2C560\\u0026ssl=1","id":"50530","title":"MakingHome_Brown_1726_001","alt":"A wide angle view of the Birthing in Alabama exhibition in 2024 at Cooper Hewitt.","caption":"Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, Making Home\\u2014Design Triennial Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York\\nPhoto by Elliot Goldstein \\u00a9 Smithsonian Institution","itemprop":"image"},{"src":"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/12\\\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002.jpg?fit=840%2C560\\u0026ssl=1","id":"50305","title":"MakingHome_Brown_1726_002","alt":"A wide angle view of the Birthing in Alabama exhibition in 2024 at Cooper Hewitt.","caption":"Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, Making Home\\u2014Design Triennial Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York\\nPhoto by Elliot Goldstein \\u00a9 Smithsonian Institution","itemprop":"image"},{"src":"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/12\\\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_003.jpg?fit=840%2C560\\u0026ssl=1","id":"50531","title":"MakingHome_Brown_1726_003","alt":"A wide angle view of the Birthing in Alabama exhibition in 2024 at Cooper Hewitt.","caption":"Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, Making Home\\u2014Design Triennial Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York\\nPhoto by Elliot Goldstein \\u00a9 Smithsonian Institution","itemprop":"image"},{"src":"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/12\\\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_004.jpg?fit=840%2C560\\u0026ssl=1","id":"50532","title":"MakingHome_Brown_1726_004","alt":"A wide angle view of the Birthing in Alabama exhibition in 2024 at Cooper Hewitt.","caption":"Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, Making Home\\u2014Design Triennial Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York\\nPhoto by Elliot Goldstein \\u00a9 Smithsonian Institution","itemprop":"image"},{"src":"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/12\\\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_005.jpg?fit=683%2C1024\\u0026ssl=1","id":"50533","title":"MakingHome_Brown_1726_005","alt":"A view of a case containing a uniform and books in the 2024 Birthing in Alabama exhibition at Cooper Hewitt.","caption":"Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, Making Home\\u2014Design Triennial Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York\\nPhoto by Elliot Goldstein \\u00a9 Smithsonian Institution","itemprop":"image"},{"src":"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/12\\\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_006.jpg?fit=840%2C560\\u0026ssl=1","id":"50534","title":"MakingHome_Brown_1726_006","alt":"A wide angle view of the Birthing in Alabama exhibition in 2024 at Cooper Hewitt.","caption":"Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, Making Home\\u2014Design Triennial Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York\\nPhoto by Elliot Goldstein \\u00a9 Smithsonian Institution","itemprop":"image"},{"src":"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2024\\\/12\\\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_007.jpg?fit=840%2C560\\u0026ssl=1","id":"50535","title":"MakingHome_Brown_1726_007","alt":"A wide angle view of the Birthing in Alabama exhibition in 2024 at Cooper Hewitt.","caption":"Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, Making Home\\u2014Design Triennial Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Museum of Design in New York\\nPhoto by Elliot Goldstein \\u00a9 Smithsonian Institution","itemprop":"image"}]\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.edu\/exhibitions\/making-home-smithsonian-design-triennial:event-exhib-6710\">Making Home<\/a> <em>runs from November 2, 2024 to August 10, 2025 at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"50304\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2024\/12\/12\/midwife-photographs-in-birthing-in-alabama-at-cooper-hewitt\/lori-brown\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?fit=801%2C1200&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"801,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"4","credit":"","camera":"ILCE-7M3","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1631382646","copyright":"LH_2021","focal_length":"57","iso":"500","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"lori-brown\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"<p>Photo by Laura Heyman<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?fit=200%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?fit=684%2C1024&ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-50304\" title=\"Lori A. Brown\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?resize=100%2C150&ssl=1\" alt=\"An informal portrait of a White woman.\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?resize=200%2C300&ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?resize=684%2C1024&ssl=1 684w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?resize=768%2C1151&ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/lori-brown.jpg?w=801&ssl=1 801w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a><em>Lori A. Brown, FAIA, is an architect, educator, and scholar. She is president of\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.architexx.org\/\"><em>ArchiteXX<\/em><\/a><em>, which she cofounded in 2012;\u00a0principal of lab practices, a research and design firm founded in 2005; and a Distinguished Professor at Syracuse University School of Architecture. Photo by Laura Heyman.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circulating Now welcomes guest blogger Lori A. Brown, curator and architect of Birthing in Alabama: Designing Spaces for Reproduction, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19605840,"featured_media":50303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12763,51014,103,4940351],"tags":[273905,24741,168941,36893,4939160,678875950],"class_list":["post-50271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-collections","category-guests","category-news","category-prints-photographs","tag-1800s","tag-1950s","tag-african-american-history","tag-midwifery","tag-on-loan","tag-race"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/MakingHome_Brown_1726_002_feature.jpg?fit=900%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3xcDk-d4P","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19605840"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50271"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50540,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50271\/revisions\/50540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |