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Author Das, Veena, author

Title Affliction : health, disease, poverty / Veena Das
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2015
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrations
Series Forms of living
Forms of living.
Contents 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
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
Poor -- Medical care -- India -- Delhi
Medical care -- India -- Delhi
Medical care.
Culture.
Poverty.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Delivery of Health Care
Poverty
Stress, Psychological
Culture
Family
Patient Care
poverty.
culture (concept)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Culture
Medical care
Poor -- Health and hygiene
Poor -- Medical care
Social conditions
SUBJECT Delhi (India) -- Social conditions
India
Subject India -- Delhi
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780823261833
0823261832
0823261840
9780823261840