{"id":470,"date":"2020-06-02T20:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maq.dreamhosters.com\/book-forums\/?post_type=forum&#038;p=470"},"modified":"2021-02-11T20:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T20:50:15","slug":"omar-dewachis-ungovernable-life","status":"publish","type":"forum","link":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/forum\/omar-dewachis-ungovernable-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar Dewachi\u2019s Ungovernable Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"446\" src=\"https:\/\/maq.dreamhosters.com\/book-forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-3.56.14-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-3.56.14-PM.png 293w, https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/Screen-Shot-2020-06-02-at-3.56.14-PM-197x300.png 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>At the 2019 AAA meetings in Vancouver, the Society for Medical Anthropology Awarded the New Millennium Book Award to Omar Dewachi, for his 2017 monograph,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.proofpoint.com\/v2\/url?u=https-3A__www.sup.org_books_title_-3Fid-3D22595&amp;d=DwMFaQ&amp;c=iORugZls2LlYyCAZRB3XLg&amp;r=8baEZJoMBOWJXZx89qvBp3hhFpOD6pHNy1BzhJ-Zemg&amp;m=cfMYcEwYTOpu2sKJwxqGIob6dt53wkj_V6WAowRwUr8&amp;s=Ygp6xzxVNhnMcqGidJe7qvrjeo8YEGGAyVsld0bnSZ4&amp;e=\" target=\"_blank\">Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;This award, given every two years, recognizes \u201cthe author whose work is judged to be the most significant and potentially influential contribution to medical anthropology.\u201d&nbsp; Dewachi\u2019s book was selected in part because the committee considered it to be a work of \u201cexceptional courage\u201d and \u201cpotential impact beyond the field\u201d of medical anthropology.&nbsp; This forum on&nbsp;Ungovernable Life&nbsp;will be the first in a series of online discussions featuring award-winning books.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please enjoy the following engagements with this remarkable book:<\/p>\n\n\n<section class=\"post-embed forumreview-embed\"><section class=\"thumbnail\" style=\"background-image:url('')\"><\/section><section class=\"details\"><p class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/forumreview\/sourcing-and-positioning-an-iraqi-medicine-reading-dewachis-ungovernable-life\/\">Sourcing and Positioning an Iraqi Medicine: Reading Dewachi\u2019s Ungovernable Life<\/a><\/p><p class=\"authordate\">Nadje Al-Ali | June 2, 2020<\/p><\/section><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"post-embed forumreview-embed\"><section class=\"thumbnail\" style=\"background-image:url('')\"><\/section><section class=\"details\"><p class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/forumreview\/life-as-collapse\/\">Life as Collapse<\/a><\/p><p class=\"authordate\">Harris Solomon | June 2, 2020<\/p><\/section><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"post-embed forumreview-embed\"><section class=\"thumbnail\" style=\"background-image:url('')\"><\/section><section class=\"details\"><p class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/forumreview\/war-and-medicine-in-iraq-physicians-and-the-aftermath-of\/\">War and medicine in Iraq: physicians and the aftermath of empire<\/a><\/p><p class=\"authordate\">Michelle Pentecost | June 2, 2020<\/p><\/section><\/section>\n\n<section class=\"post-embed forumreview-embed\"><section class=\"thumbnail\" style=\"background-image:url('')\"><\/section><section class=\"details\"><p class=\"title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/forumreview\/book-forum-response\/\">Book Forum Response<\/a><\/p><p class=\"authordate\">Omar Dewachi | June 2, 2020<\/p><\/section><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the 2019 AAA meetings in Vancouver, the Society for Medical Anthropology Awarded the New Millennium Book Award to Omar Dewachi, for his 2017 monograph,&nbsp;Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq.&nbsp;&nbsp;This award, given every two years, recognizes \u201cthe author whose work is judged to be the most significant and potentially influential contribution to medical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":471,"template":"","meta":[],"area":[],"topic":[],"creator":[],"class_list":["post-470","forum","type-forum","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forum"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/forum"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"area","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"creator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modil.io\/forums\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/creator?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}