Surgery And Salvation

Author : Elizabeth O'Brien
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surgery and Salvation written by Elizabeth O'Brien and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sweeping history of reproductive surgery in Mexico, Elizabeth O'Brien traces the interstices of religion, reproduction, and obstetric racism from the end of the Spanish empire through the post-revolutionary 1930s. Examining medical ideas about operations (including cesarean section, abortion, hysterectomy, and eugenic sterilization), Catholic theology, and notions of modernity and identity, O'Brien argues that present-day claims about fetal personhood are rooted in the use of surgical force against marginalized and racialized women. This history illuminates the theological, patriarchal, and epistemological roots of obstetric violence and racism today. O'Brien illustrates how ideas about maternal worth and unborn life developed in tandem. Eighteenth-century priests sought to save unborn souls through cesarean section, while nineteenth-century doctors aimed to salvage some unmarried women's social reputations via therapeutic abortion. By the twentieth century, eugenicists wished to regenerate the nation's racial profile, in part by sterilizing women in public clinics. The belief that medical interventions could redeem women, children, and the nation is what O'Brien refers to as "salvation though surgery." As operations acquired racial and religious significances, Indigenous, Afro-Mexican, and mixed-race people's bodies became sites for surgical experimentation. Even during periods of Church-state conflict, O'Brien argues, the religious valences of experimental surgery manifested in embodied expressions of racialized, and often-coercive, medical science.

Author : Anita Hannig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645729X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Surgery written by Anita Hannig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, NGO staff, celebrities, and some physicians have crafted a stock narrative around this injury, depicting afflicted women as victims of a backward culture who have their fortunes dramatically reversed by Western aid. With Beyond Surgery, medical anthropologist Anita Hannig unsettles this picture for the first time and reveals the complicated truth behind the idea of biomedical intervention as quick-fix salvation. Through her in-depth ethnography of two repair and rehabilitation centers operating in Ethiopia, Hannig takes the reader deep into a world inside hospital walls, where women recount stories of loss and belonging, shame and delight. As she chronicles the lived experiences of fistula patients in clinical treatment, Hannig explores the danger of labeling “culture” the culprit, showing how this common argument ignores the larger problem of insufficient medical access in rural Africa. Beyond Surgery portrays the complex social outcomes of surgery in an effort to deepen our understanding of medical missions in Africa, expose cultural biases, and clear the path toward more effective ways of delivering care to those who need it most.

Author : Anita Hannig
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022645732X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Surgery written by Anita Hannig and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 their communities in full health. Journalists, NGO staff, celebrities, and some physicians have crafted a stock narrative around this injury, depicting afflicted women as victims of a backward culture who have their fortunes dramatically reversed by Western aid. With Beyond Surgery, medical anthropologist Anita Hannig unsettles this picture for the first time and reveals the complicated truth behind the idea of biomedical intervention as quick-fix salvation. Through her in-depth ethnography of two repair and rehabilitation centers operating in Ethiopia, Hannig takes the reader deep into a world inside hospital walls, where women recount stories of loss and belonging, shame and delight. As she chronicles the lived experiences of fistula patients in clinical treatment, Hannig explores the danger of labeling “culture” the culprit, showing how this common argument ignores the larger problem of insufficient medical access in rural Africa. Beyond Surgery portrays the complex social outcomes of surgery in an effort to deepen our understanding of medical missions in Africa, expose cultural biases, and clear the path toward more effective ways of delivering care to those who need it most.

Author : J. Citrome
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137096810
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Surgeon in Medieval English Literature written by J. Citrome and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. Pastoral, theological, recreational, and medical writings are among the texts discussed in this wide-ranging study.

Author : Janice F. Baca
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1617396818
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Healing Plan written by Janice F. Baca and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you suffered the pains of abuse, infidelity, or divorce? Do you feel abandoned in a terrifying world, tormented by emotional or spiritual wounds? If so, then it's time for healing and a new beginning. Janice is a living witness that time does not heal all wounds; God heals all wounds. Her moving, personal account of abuse, divorce, and recovery demonstrates God's powerful hand of deliverance and restoration. Just as God reached out to heal and deliver her, he offers the same for all who will receive. Janice encourages readers to discover God's Healing Plan for their own lives. Not only will it inspire readers to receive God's healing, but it will also lead to a life of purpose and fulfillment.

Author : Amos Van Der Merwe
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1602475032
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing Surgery with Christ written by Amos Van Der Merwe and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We love being well and enjoying life, but in every life there comes a time when the certainties of tomorrow fade away in the anguish of today's reality. We get sick, face surgery and therapy and worry. Facing Surgery with Christ is the product of a cancer surgeon's experience with the spiritual needs of his patients.

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 168149051X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Because God Is Real written by Peter Kreeft and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atheistic and agnostic writers are aggressively attacking traditional religious beliefs. Philosopher and prolific writer Peter Kreeft is up to the challenge in this work of popular apologetics aimed at both teens and adults. The masterful Kreeft tackles sixteen crucial issues about the deeper meaning of life. The questions that Kreeft explores range from, "Is faith reasonable?," Can you prove there is a God?", and "Why is Jesus different?," to "Why is sex so confusing?," "Why is there evil?", and "Why must we die?" Kreeft provides thoughtful, lucid, and persuasive answers for believers, unbelievers, and seekers to consider. As always, Kreeft is insightful, inspiring, and entertaining. This book is ideal for those exploring faith for the first time, as well as for confirmation and religious education classes. It's an intellectual and spiritual feast! This is vintage Kreeft. "The good news of the Gospel is as exciting as a murder mystery. For at its heart there is a murder: the murder of God two thousand years ago in Jerusalem. And this God is the greatest of mysteries: who He is and why He put us here, and why He came here and what His plans are for us. The story is literally a matter of life or death – eternal life or death." — Peter Kreeft "Be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in you." — 1 Peter 3:15

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book House Beautiful written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Holly Folk
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469632802
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Religion of Chiropractic written by Holly Folk and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-03-13 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiropractic is by far the most common form of alternative medicine in the United States today, but its fascinating origins stretch back to the battles between science and religion in the nineteenth century. At the center of the story are chiropractic's colorful founders, D. D. Palmer and his son, B. J. Palmer, of Davenport, Iowa, where in 1897 they established the Palmer College of Chiropractic. Holly Folk shows how the Palmers' system depicted chiropractic as a conduit for both material and spiritualized versions of a "vital principle," reflecting popular contemporary therapies and nineteenth-century metaphysical beliefs, including the idea that the spine was home to occult forces. The creation of chiropractic, and other Progressive-era versions of alternative medicine, happened at a time when the relationship between science and religion took on an urgent, increasingly competitive tinge. Many remarkable people, including the Palmers, undertook highly personal reinterpretations of their physical and spiritual worlds. In this context, Folk reframes alternative medicine and spirituality as a type of populist intellectual culture in which ideologies about the body comprise a highly appealing form of cultural resistance.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 764 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: