Connective Tissue: Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India
Author:   Lily N. Shapiro
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
ISBN:  

9781978841536


Pages:   204
Publication Date:   31 July 2025
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
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Connective Tissue: Factory Accidents and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery in South India


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Author:   Lily N. Shapiro
Publisher:   Rutgers University Press
Imprint:   Rutgers University Press
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781978841536


ISBN 10:   1978841531
Pages:   204
Publication Date:   31 July 2025
Recommended Age:   From 18 to 99 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Foreword by Lenore Manderson Note on transliteration Introduction     1. “Are these machines dangerous?”: Factory Accidents, Risk, and Labor 2. Paḻakkam: Habit, Care, and Recovery 3. Form, function, and productivity at the hospital 4. Futures, care, and capitalism     5. Labor law and responsibility     Conclusion: What is a hand? Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

Reviews

""Taking occupational accidents in South India as its central ethnographic focus, this astonishing and unforgettable book reveals surprising and unsettling linkages among factory labor and medicine, bodies and machines, violence and care.""--Janelle S. Taylor ""professor of anthropology, University of Toronto"" ""This moving and creative ethnography is theoretically abundant and beautifully written. Shapiro's brilliant ethnographic examination of workplace accidents and their aftermath reveals hidden connections between neoliberal capital, systems of labor, modern medicine, relations of care and debt, and ideas and practices of disability.""--Radhika Govindrajan ""associate professor of sociocultural anthropology, University of Washington""


Author Information

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

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