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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 ... More
Keywords: war, health, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, US
Print publication date: 2019 | Print ISBN-13: 9781479875962 |
Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: May 2020 | DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479875962.001.0001 |
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