| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Forms of living |
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Forms of living
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| Contents |
Affliction: An Introduction -- How the Body Speaks -- A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death -- Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives -- Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits -- The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of Our Times -- Medicines, Markets, and Healing -- Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth -- Conclusion: Thoughts for the Day after Tomorrow |
| Summary |
"Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. It traces the unfolding of illness within families, local communities, neighborhood markets and in occult worlds. Privileging the experience of people living in these neighborhoods it asks how can global health be made to take this experience into account rather than escape from it?"--Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
Illness Narrative |
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India |
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abandonment |
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disease |
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everyday life |
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global health |
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healing |
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health |
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madness |
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poverty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR platform, viewed April 11, 2017) |
| Subject |
Poor -- Health and hygiene -- India -- Delhi
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Poor -- Medical care -- India -- Delhi
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Medical care -- India -- Delhi
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Medical care.
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Culture.
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Poverty.
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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Delivery of Health Care
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Poverty
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Stress, Psychological
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Culture
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Family
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Patient Care
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poverty.
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culture (concept)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
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Culture
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Medical care
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Poor -- Health and hygiene
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Poor -- Medical care
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Social conditions
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Delhi (India) -- Social conditions
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India |
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India -- Delhi
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823261833 |
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0823261832 |
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0823261840 |
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9780823261840 |
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