Introduction : Caracas, Venezuela : on arrival -- Hospitals, patients, and doctors -- The ambiguities of risk : morality, hygiene, and "the other" -- Targeting women : bodies out of "control," public health and the body politic -- The hospital encounter : bodies marked, mended, and manipulated -- Women's agency & resilience : the way I want to be treated -- Epilogue : from neoliberalism to Chávez