Usman Mahar is an anthropologist at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg. He studies healthcare and wellbeing within and across different socioeconomic structures and cultural settings. Of particular interest to him are the issues of structural violence in inherent in healthcare access and ageing. His other interests include; issues of identity in a globalised world, a moral-philosophical approach towards politics and human rights and issues of gender and sexuality. Follow him ...