Living on Borrowed Breath: Respiratory Distress, Social Breathing, and the Vital Movement of Ventilators
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Harris Scott Solomon
Fred W. Shaffer Associate Professor
As a medical anthropologist, I am interested in the dynamic relations between medicine
and everyday social and political life. My work is primarily based in urban India,
and I also conduct research in the US.
My most recent work is a book project, entitled Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma (Duke
University Press, 2022). Lifelines is an ethnographic study of road and railway injuries
and of trauma s

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