Connective Tissue: Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India (Medical Anthropology) - Tapa blanda

Shapiro, Lily N.

 
9781978841529: Connective Tissue: Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India (Medical Anthropology)
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ISBN 10: 1978841523 ISBN 13: 9781978841529
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2025

Sinopsis

An ethnography of factory accidents and their attendant reconstructive plastic surgeries in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, Connective Tissue explores notions of risk, work and labor practices, and the way meaning is made from experiences of trauma, care, and recovery. The book charts a rough chronology of the accident-from the workspace that preceded it, the transformation of the workspace by the accident, through journeys to and treatment in the hospital, and then the various and complex ways in which the accident reverberates into the future during recovery.
 
Connective Tissue revisits scholarship on factory labor by analyzing the accident as constitutive of the experience of work itself, and it refines existing conversations about the body, trauma, and care by introducing an analysis informed by theories of labor and production. Author Lily N. Shapiro argues that care does not happen in spite of or on the margins of capitalism, but rather that capitalism happens in and through care and caring relations. These experiences are intersected by identities of caste, class, and gender, and entangled in state discourse about labor rights, welfare, and industrial law.

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LILY N. SHAPIRO is a qualitative health researcher at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle.

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Editorial
Rutgers University Press
Año de publicación
2025
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
1978841523
ISBN 13 
9781978841529
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Número de páginas
204
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9781978841536: Connective Tissue: Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India (Medical Anthropology)

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ISBN 10:  1978841531 ISBN 13:  9781978841536
Editorial: Rutgers University Press, 2025
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