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Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma

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posted on 2022-12-26, 19:18 authored by Harris Solomon

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?

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Duke University as part of the TOME initiative

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2022

ISBN (Open Access)

9781478092728

ISBN (Print - Cloth)

9781478016212

ISBN (Print - Paper)

9781478018858

ISBN (Ebook For Sale)

9781478023487

Publisher Name

Duke University Press

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