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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, NGOContinue reading “Now Available from The University of Chicago Press: “Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital””