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War and Health The Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- "Lutz, Mazzarino"
- Series:
- Anthropologies of American medicine. Culture, power, and practice.
- NYU scholarship online.
- Anthropologies of American medicine. Culture, power, and practice
- NYU scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Health aspects.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Health aspects.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- Public health--Afghanistan--History--21st century.
- Public health.
- Public health--Pakistan--History--21st century.
- Public health--Iraq--History--21st century.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- War affects human lives and public health far beyond the battlefield, long after combat ceases. Based on ethnographic research by anthropologists, healthcare workers, social workers, and activists, these chapters cover a range of subjects from maternal health in Afghanistan, to the public health effects of US drone strikes in Pakistan, to Iraq's deteriorating cancer care system, to the struggles of US military families to recover from combat-related trauma, among other topics. With a spotlight on the US-led wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, started ostensibly to root out terrorism, the book argues that the terror and wounds of war have no clear resolution for the people who experience it, and for the communities where battles are fought.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the health consequences of war / Catherine Lutz, Marcia C. Inhorn, and Andrea Mazzarino
- Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Childbirth in the context of conflict in Afghanistan / Kylea Laina Liese
- Drone strikes and vaccination campaigns : how the war on terror helps sustain polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Svea Closser and Noah Coburn
- Remaining undone : heroin in the time of serial war / Anila Daulatzai
- Dignity under extreme duress : the moral and emotional landscape of local humanitarian workers in the Afghan-Pakistan border areas / Patricia Omidian and Catherine Panter-Brick
- Iraq
- War and the public health disaster in Iraq / Scott Harding and Kathryn Libal
- The political capital of war wounds / Ghassan S. Abu-Sittah,
- Iraqis : cancer itineraries : war, medical travel, and therapeutic geographies / Mac Skelton
- War and its consequences for cancer trends and services in Iraq / Layth Mula-Hussain
- United States
- Imagining military suicide / Ken MacLeish
- Afterwar work for life / Zoh. Wool
- "It's not okay" : war's toll on health brought home to communities and environments / Jean Scandlyn and Sarah Hautzinger
- Appendix : the body count / Neta Crawford.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-0524-6
- OCLC:
- 1119621542
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