Duke University Press, 2022 eISBN: 978-1-4780-2348-7 | Paper: 978-1-4780-1885-8 | Cloth: 978-1-4780-1621-2 Library of Congress Classification RA772.T7S65 2022
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In Lifelines Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, and families who experience and care for traumatic injuries due to widespread traffic accidents. He traces trauma’s moves after the accident: from scenes of road and railway injuries to ambulance interiors; through emergency triage, surgery, and intensive care; and from the morgue for patients who do not survive into the homes of those who do. These pathways reveal how trauma shifts inequalities, infrastructures, and institutions through the lives and labors of clinical spaces. Solomon contends that medicine itself must be understood in terms of lifelines: patterns of embodied movement that determine survival. In reflecting on the centrality of traffic to life, Lifelines explores a fundamental question: How does medicine move us?
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
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.
REVIEWS
"Lifelines is a subtly crafted account of the tangled relations between mobility and life in the contemporary city. In that sense, it contributes to a vibrant discussion on mobility, infrastructure and urban life across South Asia and other regions of the world today. . . . The manuscript’s strengths lie in how it radiates out from its empirical focus: trauma as it moves in and through the hospital as a site of medicalised care."
-- Waqas Butt South Asia
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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
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