Claire Wendland

Claire Wendland is a professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Obstetrics & Gynecology at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of A Heart for the Work: Journeys through an African Medical School, the first ethnography of a medical school in the global South, and Partial Stories: Maternal Death from Six Angles. Trained as a cultural anthropologist and obstetrician-gynecologist, she researches medicine, metrics, and women's health in cross-cultural perspective.