Beyond Surgery: Injury, Healing, and Religion at an Ethiopian Hospital

An "incisive and immensely insightful study" of African women, Western medicine, and how to deliver care to those who need it (Jean Comaroff, Harvard University).

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 th...