Ungovernable Life: Mandatory Medicine and Statecraft in Iraq.

Although Dewachi is not as explicit on the theory of the latter, his empirical material is a damning indictment of US and British imperialism in Iraq, past and present. Later of course, Iraq became a country whose infrastructures were devastated by deliberate acts of invasion and war by the United States and its junior partner, the United Kingdom. The United States has since the early 1990s used Iraq as a laboratory, systematically dismantling its state sector and subjecting its population to chemical warfare at a breathtaking scale (this is discussed in Dewachi's important article, "The Toxicity of Everyday Survival in Iraq", published in 2013 by Jadaliyya). [Extracted from the article]

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