Introduction : Caracas, Venezuela : on arrival -- Hospitals, patients, and doctors -- The ambiguities of risk : morality, hygiene, and the "other" -- Targeting women : bodies out of "control," public health and the body politic -- The hospital encounter : bodies marked, mended, and manipulated -- Women's agency and resilience : "the way I want to be treated" -- Epilogue : from neoliberalism to Chávez.
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