- Description
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white)
- 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.
- Subject
- Note
- Previously issued in print: 2017.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience (note)
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 16, 2017).
- ISBN
- 9780226457321
- OCLC
- EDZ0001661395
- Author
Hannig, Anita, author.
- Title
Beyond surgery : injury, healing, and religion at an Ethiopian hospital / Anita Hannig.
- Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
- Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Audience
Specialized.
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