Harris Solomon

Lifelines

The Traffic of Trauma

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Produktbeschreibung

Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbaiâ s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781478018858
• ISBN-10: 1478018852
• Artikelnr.: 62924906

Autorenporträt

Harris Solomon is Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Note on Illustrations  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction: The Traffic of Trauma  1
1. Carrying: The Lifelines of Transfer  27
2. Shifting: The Lifelines of Triage  53
3. Visiting: The Lifelines of Home  79
4. Tracing: The Lifelines of Identification  107
Seeing: The Lifelines of Surgery  135
5. Breathing: The Lifelines of Ventilation  147
6. Dissecting: The Lifelines of Forensics  174
7. Recovering: The Lifelines of Discharge  200
Epilogue: The Traffic of Medicine  229
Notes  237
References  253
Index  277