Harris Solomon is Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India, also published by Duke University Press.

"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)

• Note on Illustrations  ixAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction: The Traffic of Trauma  11. Carrying: The Lifelines of Transfer  272. Shifting: The Lifelines of Triage  533. Visiting: The Lifelines of Home  794. Tracing: The Lifelines of Identification  107Seeing: The Lifelines of Surgery  1355. Breathing: The Lifelines of Ventilation  1476. Dissecting: The Lifelines of Forensics  1747. Recovering: The Lifelines of Discharge  200Epilogue: The Traffic of Medicine  229Notes  237References  253Index  277

Harris Solomon is Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India, also published by Duke University Press.

"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)

• Note on Illustrations  ixAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction: The Traffic of Trauma  11. Carrying: The Lifelines of Transfer  272. Shifting: The Lifelines of Triage  533. Visiting: The Lifelines of Home  794. Tracing: The Lifelines of Identification  107Seeing: The Lifelines of Surgery  1355. Breathing: The Lifelines of Ventilation  1476. Dissecting: The Lifelines of Forensics  1747. Recovering: The Lifelines of Discharge  200Epilogue: The Traffic of Medicine  229Notes  237References  253Index  277

Harris Solomon is Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Duke University and author of Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India, also published by Duke University Press.

"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)

• Note on Illustrations  ixAcknowledgments  xiIntroduction: The Traffic of Trauma  11. Carrying: The Lifelines of Transfer  272. Shifting: The Lifelines of Triage  533. Visiting: The Lifelines of Home  794. Tracing: The Lifelines of Identification  107Seeing: The Lifelines of Surgery  1355. Breathing: The Lifelines of Ventilation  1476. Dissecting: The Lifelines of Forensics  1747. Recovering: The Lifelines of Discharge  200Epilogue: The Traffic of Medicine  229Notes  237References  253Index  277