Description
Book SynopsisHarris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai's busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .
Trade Review"
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 ContentsNote 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
