Table of contents for Endangered bodies : women, children, and health in africa / edited by Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton.

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Table of Contents
Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Overview
Toyin Falola and Matthew M. Heaton
Introduction
Susanne Klausen
1. Emerging Issues in Nigerian Abortion Jurisprudence
Victor Nnamdi Opara
2. The Freedom to Risk One's Life: Women and the Experience of Clandestine Abortions in Urban Burkina Faso
Liza Debevec
3. '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
4. Prevalence of Sexual Violence and Its Impact among Women in Serbo Town, Ethiopia
Belen Asheber
5. The Silent Victims of HIV/AIDS in Kenya: The Plight of Uninfected Children among Nomadic Pastoralists
Winston Jumba Akala
6. A Rights-Based Approach in Addressing the Needs of Children Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa
Linda Jansen van Rensburg
7. "Tell me an HIV/AIDS story": To Teach/Heal/Commemorate
Devi Sarinjeive
8. Gender, Sickle Cell Disease and Human Rights in Nigeria 
Olufunke Adesuwa Akiyode
9. Public Health Policy in Kenya: The Case of Nairobi's Maternal & Child Health
Milcah Amolo Achola
10. 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
11. Pharmaceutical Pioneers: Female Pharmacists in Dakar
Donna A. Patterson
Notes on Contributors

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

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.