War and Health : : The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan /

War and Health : : The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan / / ed. by Andrea Mazzarino, Catherine Lutz.

Provides a detailed look at how war affects human life and health far beyond the battlefield Since 2010, a team of activists, social scientists, and physicians have monitored the lives lost as a result of the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through an initiative called the Costs of War Pr...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
MitwirkendeR:
Abu-Sittah, Ghassan Soleiman,
Closser, Svea,
Coburn, Noah,
Crawford, Neta,
Daulatzai, Anila,
Harding, Scott,
Hautzinger, Sarah,
Inhorn, Marcia C.,
Libal, Kathryn,
Liese, Kylea Laina,
Lutz, Catherine,
MacLeish, Ken,
Mazzarino, Andrea,
Mula-Hussain, Layth,
Omidian, Patricia,
Panter-Brick, Catherine,
Scandlyn, Jean,
Skelton, Mac,
Wool, Zoë H.,
HerausgeberIn:
Lutz, Catherine,
Mazzarino, Andrea,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice ; 4
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction The Health Consequences of War
  • Part I Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • 1 Childbirth in the Context of Conflict in Afghanistan
  • 2 Drone Strikes and Vaccination Campaigns How the War on Terror Helps Sustain Polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan
  • 3 Remaining Undone Heroin in the Time of Serial War
  • 4 Dignity under Extreme Duress The Moral and Emotional Landscape of Local Humanitarian Workers in the Afghan- Pakistan Border Areas
  • Part II Iraq
  • 5 War and the Public Health Disaster in Iraq
  • 6 The Political Capital of War Wounds
  • 7 Iraqis’ Cancer Itineraries War, Medical Travel, and Therapeutic Geographies
  • 8 War and Its Consequences for Cancer Trends and Services in Iraq
  • Part III United States
  • 9 Imagining Military Suicide
  • 10 Afterwar Work for Life
  • 11 “It’s Not Okay” War’s Toll on Health Brought Home to Communities and Environments
  • Appendix The Body Count
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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