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"Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it."--Pub. desc

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

Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it