Fistula Politics : : Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger / / Alison Heller.
Obstetric fistula is a birthing injury caused by prolonged obstructed labor that results in urinary and fecal incontinence. It is nearly non-existent in the Global North. In contrast Niger, in West Africa, has one of the highest rates of fistula in the world. In Western humanitarian and media narrat...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) :; 25 color and B-W photos |
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