ISBN 9789382579335|Paperback|312 pages|2021|Yoda Press
The Occupied Clinic explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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ISBN 9789382579335|Paperback|312 pages|2021|Yoda Press
The Occupied Clinic explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
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In The Occupied Clinic, Saiba Varma explores the psychological, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir — the world’s most densely militarized place. Into a long history of occupations, insurgencies, suppressions, natural disasters, and a crisis of public health infrastructure come interventions in human distress, especially those of doctors and humanitarians, who struggle against an epidemic: more than sixty percent of the civilian population suffers from depression, anxiety, PTSD, or acute stress. Drawing on encounters between medical providers and patients in an array of settings, Varma reveals how colonization is embodied and how overlapping state practices of care and violence create disorienting worlds for doctors and patients alike. Varma shows how occupation creates worlds of disrupted meaning in which clinical life is connected to political disorder, subverting biomedical neutrality, ethics, and processes of care in profound ways. By highlighting the overlap between humanitarianism and militarism and between care and violence, Varma theorizes care not as a redemptive practice, but as a fraught sphere of action that is never quite what it seems.
Author:
Saiba Varma
ISBN:
9789382579335
Binding:
Paperback
Year of Publication:
2021
Pages:
312
Publisher:
Yoda Press
Edition:
First
Condition:
New
Country of Origin:
India
About the Author
Saiba Varma is an Assistant Professor of the Psychological/Medical Anthropology subfield. She is a medical and cultural anthropologist working on questions of violence, medicine, psychiatry, and politics as they pertain to Indian-controlled Kashmir and South Asia more generally.
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