Download or read book Fistula Politics written by Alison Heller and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I: Incontinence and inequalities -- Living incontinence -- Laraba's story -- Fistula stigma -- Liminal wives -- Part II: Clinical encounters -- 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