I write about medicine, science, and health. 

I currently am writing a collaborative ethnography of the lives and labors of an American intensive care unit during COVID-19.

My most recent book, Lifelines: The Traffic of Trauma, reflects on the enduring links between medicine and movement. It focuses on traffic accidents and traumatic injuries, told through the story of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospital emergency wards.

My previous book, Metabolic Living, documents the rise of metabolic illness in urban India.

Here are there, I write fiction, opinion pieces, and narrative non-fiction. I write a newsletter, too.

Across these projects and others, I'm interested in the dynamic relations between medicine and everyday social and political life.

I teach in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University.