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Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Table of contents
Introduction 0 Why Write for the Public? 1 What to Expect, from Pitch to Publication 2 How to Write a Pitch 3 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 1: Structure 4 How To Tell a Great Story, Part 2: Style 5 Navigating Ethics and Reducing Harms 6 Habits of Thriving Public Anthropologists 7 Cultivating the Craft of Writing 8
Despite relatively modest rates of surgical success, women often do find that hospitals become sites of transformation—places to refashion their bodies, if not surgically then through careful self-management. By sharing techniques with one another, women learn how to dress, bathe, walk, sit, and cover themselves in order to conceal their incontinence. When women finally return home, they can often “pass” if the surgery was not successful. But concealment comes at a high price to women’s psychosocial health, since those who are most successful in concealing their conditions are often seen by their kin and communities as having rejected vital tenets of relational reciprocity.
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Spaces of Waiting: Obstetric Fistula in Niger

Alison Heller
The work of a medical anthropologist offers a window into the world of Nigerien women who live with obstetric fistula.