| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Intervention pathologies -- Vitality of the state -- Doctors without empires -- The Royal College -- Development and its discontents -- Infants and infantry -- Empire of patronage |
| Summary |
Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. 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. 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 recent years, this has been reversed as thousands of Iraqi doctors have left the country in search of security and careers abroad. 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 dissolution in the Middle East. His work illustrates how imperial modes of governance, from the British Mandate to the U.S. interventions, have been contested, maintained, and unraveled through medicine and healthcare. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 15, 2017) |
| Subject |
Medical policy -- Iraq -- History
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National health services -- Iraq -- History
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Medical care -- Iraq -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Medical care
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Medical policy
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National health services
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
Iraq -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93003202
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| Subject |
Iraq
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2016056945 |
| ISBN |
9781503602694 |
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1503602699 |
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