War and Health - 9781479875962

War and HealthThe Medical Consequences of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan\nAuthor(s): Catherine Lutz, Andrea Mazzarino\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479875962, 978-1479875962\nSynopsis\nProvides a detailed look at how war affects human life and health far beyond the battlefield \n Since 2010, a team of activists, social scientists, and physicians have monitored the lives lost as a result of the US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan through an initiative called the Costs of War Project. Unlike most studies of war casualties, this research looks beyond lives lost in violence to consider those who have died as a result of illness, injuries, and malnutrition that would not have occurred had the war not taken place. Incredibly, the Cost of War Project has found that, of the more than 1,000,000 lives lost in the recent US wars, a minimum of 800,000 died not from violence, but from indirect caus.