Monsoons and medicine: the biopolitics of crisis and state indifference in Gilgit-Baltistan.

Through the medium of a hospital ethnography, this paper explores the debilitating impacts of the 2010 monsoon floods on Gilgit-Baltistan's public health sector, and interrogates how its escalating harms coalesced with long-standing state neglects to generate medical precarity and loss, and spark de...

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Publicado en:South Asian History & Culture Vol. 10; no. 1; pp. 78 - 97
Autor principal: Varley, Emma
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan2019
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