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Author:
Heller, Alison (Alison W.), author.
Title:
Fistula politics : birthing injuries and the quest for continence in Niger / Alison Heller.
Publisher:
Rutgers University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xv, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Women--Health and hygiene--Niger.
Fistula--Treatment--Niger.
Reproductive health--Niger.
Women--Niger--Social conditions--21st century.
Reproductive health.
Women--Health and hygiene.
Women--Social conditions.
Niger.
Vaginal Fistula--therapy.
Niger.
2000-2099
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Part I: Incontinence and inequalities -- Living incontinence -- Laraba's story -- Fistula stigma -- Liminal wives -- Part II: Clinical encounters -- Six beds, sixty minutes -- The "worst place to be a mother" -- The indeterminable wait -- Part III: The marketplace of victimhood -- Arantut's story -- Superlative sufferers -- Costs and consequences -- The threshold of continence.
Series:
Medical anthropology: health, inequality, and social justice
ISBN:
1978800363
9781978800366
1978800371
9781978800373
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1027828950
LCCN:
2018012992
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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