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Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai

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Solomon, H
Published in: South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies
January 1, 2021

This paper is an ethnographic account of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) based on a study of a public hospital trauma ward in urban India. It explores the contexts, causes and consequences of TBIs in order to make several broader claims. Across two case studies, I argue that epidemiological transitions towards non-infectious disease regimens must be understood as problems of somatic movement. The implication is that bodies make transitions through actual and imagined changes in bodily movements that define how persons become patients, how traumatic injury pulls on clinical resources, and how differences in gender, sexuality, class and caste affect the social dynamics of brain injury in urban settings at every turn.

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South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

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1479-0270

ISSN

0085-6401

Publication Date

January 1, 2021

Volume

44

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1131 / 1145

Related Subject Headings

  • Cultural Studies
 

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Solomon, H. (2021). Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, 44(6), 1131–1145. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2021.1984430
Solomon, H. “Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai.” South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies 44, no. 6 (January 1, 2021): 1131–45. https://doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2021.1984430.
Solomon H. Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies. 2021 Jan 1;44(6):1131–45.
Solomon, H. “Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai.” South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies, vol. 44, no. 6, Jan. 2021, pp. 1131–45. Scopus, doi:10.1080/00856401.2021.1984430.
Solomon H. Epidemiology in Motion: Traumatic Brain Injuries in Mumbai. South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies. 2021 Jan 1;44(6):1131–1145.

Published In

South Asia: Journal of South Asia Studies

DOI

EISSN

1479-0270

ISSN

0085-6401

Publication Date

January 1, 2021

Volume

44

Issue

6

Start / End Page

1131 / 1145

Related Subject Headings

  • Cultural Studies