Fistula Politics : : Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger /

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
VerfasserIn:
Heller, Alison,
MitwirkendeR:
Manderson, Lenore,
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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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Foreword
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Note on Terminology
  • 1. Incontinence and Inequalities
  • Part I: Living Incontinence
  • Laraba's Story: Rejection, Resistance, Refusal
  • 2. Fistula Stigma
  • 3. Liminal Wives
  • Part II: Clinical Encounters
  • Six Beds, Sixty Minutes
  • 4. The "Worst Place to Be a Mother"
  • 5. The Indeterminable Wait
  • Part III: The Marketplace of Victimhood
  • Arantut's Story: The Other Extreme
  • 6. Superlative Sufferers
  • 7. Costs and Consequences
  • 8. The Threshold of Continence
  • Appendix
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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