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War affects human lives and public health far beyond the battlefield, long after combat ceases. Based on ethnographic research by anthropologists, healthcare workers, social workers, and activists, these chapters cover a range of subjects from maternal health in Afghanistan, to the public health effects of US drone strikes in Pakistan, to Iraq's deteriorating cancer care system, to the struggles of US military families to recover from combat-related trauma, among other topics. With a spotlight on the US-led wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, started ostensibly to root out terrorism, the book argues that the terror and wounds of war have no clear resolution for the people who experience it, and for the communities where battles are fought.

Afghan War, 2001 --- -Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Public health --- Health aspects. --- History --- AUMC. --- American University of Beirut Medical Center. --- Badakshahn. --- Caregiving. --- Iraq war. --- Pakistan. --- US. --- United States. --- Veterans Affairs. --- aid workers. --- borderlands. --- cancer. --- drones. --- epidemiology. --- healthcare. --- heroin. --- kinship. --- maternal health. --- medical anthropology. --- medical travel. --- military biopolitics. --- military suicide. --- polio. --- political elites. --- public health. --- refugees. --- sanctions. --- serial war. --- veterans. --- violence. --- war wounds.