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Across contemporary conflict zones, the clinic\u2014the central institution of modern medicine\u2014is increasingly fragile. From Gaza\u2019s devastated hospitals to Mosul\u2019s shattered medical infrastructures, war has undone the basic conditions that once sustained clinical practice. Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in the Middle East, this talk explores the afterlives of the clinic: the provisional, improvised, and often fragmented forms of care that emerge when hospitals collapse, laboratories fail, and medical records scatter across borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These disrupted conditions also shape patterns of antimicrobial resistance, where shortages, displacement, and repeated interruptions to care leave lasting microbial and therapeutic consequences. As patients move between cities and countries seeking treatment, they carry with them both the scars and complications of systems that can no longer guarantee continuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By rethinking global health from these settings, the talk asks what it means to practice and support medicine amid chronic instability\u2014and how humanitarian, clinical, and planetary health frameworks must adapt to a world where care unfolds in ruins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In preparation for this seminar, Dr. Dewachi has recommended reading I Was a Doctor in Iraq. I Am Seeing a Nightmare Play Out Again.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PDF Copies and citations of recommended readings for this seminar and all others for the semester can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaker Profile<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Omar Dewachi<\/strong> is a medical anthropologist, historian, and former physician whose work examines how decades of war and displacement in the Middle East have reshaped medical infrastructures, therapeutic practices, and microbial life. He is Chair and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. His scholarship bridges medical anthropology, global health, humanitarian studies, and the history of science, with publications in The Lancet<\/em>, Global Public Health<\/em>, and leading anthropology journals, as well as commentary featured in The New York Times<\/em>. Dewachi is the author of Ungovernable Life<\/em> and is completing his forthcoming book, Death of the Clinic<\/em>, which traces the collapse and afterlives of medicine in conflict settings. His research informs global debates on health, conflict, and the futures of care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register below and join us on Wednesday, February 4, at 1:00 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RSVP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Registration for this event has closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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