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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Kin, society, and religion. A malleable world: injury, care, and belonging -- Interlude: Yashume -- Pure and the pious: flow, containment, and transgression -- Fistula treatment and the institution. Mending the mothers of Ethiopia: institutional roots, logic, and mission -- Interlude: poison -- Clinical tracks: moving through surgery -- Beyond surgery. Healing and reforming: the making of the modern clinical subject -- Interlude: conversion -- From orphan to apprentice: crafting patient entrepreneurs at Desta Mender. |
| Summary |
Over the past few decades, maternal childbirth injuries have become a potent symbol of Western biomedical intervention in Africa, affecting over one million women across the global south. Western-funded hospitals have sprung up, offering surgical sutures that ostensibly allow women who suffer from obstetric fistula to return to their communities in full health. Journalists, NGO staff, celebrities, and some physicians have crafted a stock narrative around this injury, depicting afflicted women as victims of a backward culture who have their fortunes dramatically reversed by Western aid. With 'Beyond Surgery', medical anthropologist Anita Hannig unsettles this picture for the first time and reveals the complicated truth behind the idea of biomedical intervention as quick-fix salvation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia.
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Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. |
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Medical anthropology -- Ethiopia.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Ethiopia. |
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Fistula, Vesico-vaginal -- Treatment -- Ethiopia.
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Fistula, Vesico-vaginal. |
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Fistula, Vesico-vaginal -- Social aspects -- Ethiopia.
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Social aspects. |
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Fistula, Vesico-vaginal -- Religious aspects -- YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān.
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Fistula, Vesico-vaginal -- Religious aspects -- YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān. |
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Fistula, Vesico-vaginal -- Hospitals -- Ethiopia -- ʼAmāra kelel.
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Hospitals. |
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Ethiopia -- ʼAmāra kelel. |
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Women patients -- Ethiopia -- ʼAmāra kelel.
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Women patients. |
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Women's hospitals -- Ethiopia -- ʼAmāra kelel.
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Psychology and religion.
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Pregnancy -- Complications.
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Pregnancy -- Complications. |
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Hospitals.
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Non-governmental organizations.
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Non-governmental organizations. |
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Ethiopia. |
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hospitals (institutions, health facility) |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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Women's hospitals. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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Psychology and religion. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hannig, Anita. Beyond surgery : injury, healing, and religion at an Ethiopian hospital. Chicago, [Illinois] ; London, [England] : The University of Chicago Press, ©2017 approximately 260 pages 9780226457154 |
| ISBN |
9780226457321 (electronic book) |
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022645732X (electronic book) |
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9780226457154 |
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022645715X |
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9780226457291 |
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022645729X |
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