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.