Endangered bodies
Subtitle: women, children, and health in Africa
By: edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton.
Contributors: Falola, Toyin.; Heaton, Matthew M.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9781592215003; 9781592215010
Subjects: Women -- Health and hygiene -- Africa.; Women's health services -- Africa.; Maternal health services -- Africa.; Children -- Health and hygiene -- Africa.; Social medicine -- Africa.; Child Welfare -- Africa South of the Sahara.; Maternal Welfare -- Africa South of the Sahara.; Communicable Disease Control -- Africa South of the Sahara.; Health Policy -- Africa South of the Sahara.; Rural Population -- Africa South of the Sahara.; Socioeconomic Factors -- Africa South of the Sahara.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Emerging issues in Nigerian abortion jurisprudence / Victor Nnamdi Opara; value: The freedom to risk one's life : women and the experience of clandestine abortions in urban Burkina Faso / Liza Debevec; value: 'Poor whiteism', white maternal mortality, and the promotion of public health in South Africa : the Department of Public Health's endorsement of contraceptive services, 1930-1938 / Susanne Klausen; value: Prevalence of sexual violence and its impact among women in Serbo Town, Ethiopia / Belen Asheber; value: The silent victims of HIV/AIDS in Kenya : the plight of uninfected children among nomadic pastoralists / Winston Jumba Akala; value: A rights-based approach in addressing the needs of children infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa / Linda Jansen van Rensburg; value: "Tell me an HIV/AIDS story" : to teach/heal/commemorate / Devi Sarinjeive; value: Gender, sickle cell disease, and human rights in Nigeria / Olufunke Adesuwa Akiyode; value: Public health policy in Kenya : the case of Nairobi's maternal & child health / Milcah Amolo Achola; value: The role of traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in the provision of health care services in rural Tanzania from the pre-colonial period to the present : the case of Chagga women / Elinami Veraeli Swai; value: Pharmaceutical pioneers : female pharmacists in Dakar / Donna A. Patterson.