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

Abstract

Kin, society, and religion. A malleable world: injury, care, and belonging -- Interlude: Yashume -- The pure and the pious: flow, containment, and transgression -- Fistula treatment and the institution. Mending the mothers of Ethiopia: institutional roots, logic, and mission -- Interlude: poison -- Clinical tracks: moving through surgery -- Beyond surgery. Healing and reforming: the making of the modern clinical subject -- Interlude: conversion -- From orphan to apprentice: crafting patient entrepreneurs at Desta Mender.