Title Beyond surgery : injury, healing, and religion at an Ethiopian hospital / Anita Hannig

Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Contents Kin, society, and religion. A malleable world: injury, care, and belonging -- Interlude: Yashume -- The 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 Analysis Christianity Ethiopia Western aid biomedicine culture ethnography hospital maternal health obstetric fistula structural violence surgery Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 27, 2017) Subject Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia. Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia Medical anthropology -- Ethiopia Fistula, Vesicovaginal -- Treatment -- Ethiopia Fistula, Vesicovaginal -- Social aspects -- Ethiopia Fistula, Vesicovaginal -- Religious aspects -- YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān Fistula, Vesicovaginal -- Hospitals -- Ethiopia -- ʼAmāra kelel Women patients -- Ethiopia -- ʼAmāra kelel Women's hospitals -- Ethiopia -- ʼAmāra kelel Psychology and religion. Pregnancy -- Complications. Hospitals. Non-governmental organizations. Vaginal Fistula -- rehabilitation Social Marginalization Religion and Psychology Pregnancy Complications Vaginal Fistula -- surgery Hospitals Organizations Hospitals, General hospitals (institutions, health facility) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Psychology and religion Pregnancy -- Complications Non-governmental organizations Hospitals Fistula, Vesico-vaginal -- Religious aspects -- YaʼItyop̣yā ʼortodoks tawāḥedo béta kerestiyān Medical anthropology Women patients Women's hospitals Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia -- ʼAmāra kelel Genre/Form Ethnography Form Electronic book ISBN 9780226457321 022645732X

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