Abstract
In Lifelines Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s
busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, and families
who experience and care for traumatic injuries due to widespread traffic accidents.
He traces trauma’s moves after the accident: from scenes of road and railway injuries
to ambulance interiors; through emergency triage, surgery, and intensive care; and
from the morgue for patients who do not survive into the homes of those who do. These
pathways reveal how trauma shifts inequalities, infrastructures, and institutions
through the lives and labors of clinical spaces. Solomon contends that medicine itself
must be understood in terms of lifelines: patterns of embodied movement that determine
survival. In reflecting on the centrality of traffic to life, Lifelines explores a
fundamental question: How does medicine move us?
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