Provides a detailed look at how war affects human life and health far beyond the battlefield 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 1000000 lives lost in the recent US wars a minimum of 800000 died not from violence but from indirect causes. War and Health offers a critical examination of these indirect casualties examining health outcomes on the battlefield and elsewhereamp8212in hospitals homes and refugee campsamp8212both during combat and in the years following as communities struggle to live normal lives despite decimated social services lack of access to medical care ongoing illness and disability malnutrition loss of infrastructure and increased substance abuse. The volume considers the effect of the war on both civilians and on US service members in war zonesamp8212where healthcare systems have been destroyed by longterm conflictamp8212and in the United States where healthcare is highly developed. Ultimately it draws muchneeded attention to the farreaching health consequences of the recent US wars and argues that we cannot go to waramp8212and remain at waramp8212without understanding the catastrophic effect war has on the entire ecosystem of human health.