Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (738 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0804784450 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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An engaging and sophisticated account of the trajectory of Iraqi medicine, it tells the story of governance done and undone. Entangled in colonial, postcolonial, and imperial histories, the effects of the production of ungovernability in Iraq continue to resonate widely." (Ilana Feldman George Washington University') . "A remarkable and original analysis of the modern history of Iraq and its governing structures through its medical institutions and practices, from their close involvement in state formation and function to the unravelling of governance under wars, sanctions, and invasions." (Sami Zubaida, Birkbeck University of Lon
Omar Dewachi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Social Medicine, and Global Health and Co-Director of the Conflict Medicine Program at the American University of Beirut.
Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of U.S.-led sanctions and invasions. interventions, have been contested, maintained, and unraveled through medicine and healthcare. Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Since the British Mandate, Iraqi governments had invested in cultivating Iraq's medical doctors as agents of statecraft and fostered connections to scientists abroad. In tracing the role of doctors as agents of state-making, he challenges common accounts of Iraq's alleged political unruliness and ungovernability, bringing forth a deeper understanding of how medicine and power shape life and how decades of war and sanctions dismember projects of state-making.. In recent years, this has been reversed as thousands of Iraqi doctors have left the country in search of security and careers abroad. His work illustrates how imperial modes of governance, from the British Mandate to the U.S. Ungovernable Life presents the untold story of the rise and fall of Iraqi "mandatory medicine"and of the destruction of Iraq itself.Trained as a doctor in Baghdad, Omar Dewachi writes a medical history of Iraq, offering readers a compelling exploration of state-making and dis