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Affliction : health, disease, poverty / Veena Das.

Author/creator Das, Veena
Format Electronic and Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoNew York : Fordham University Press, [2015]
Descriptionxiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subject(s)
Series Forms of living
Forms of living. ^A1108561
Contents Machine generated contents note: -- Preface 1. Affliction: An Introduction 2. How the Body Speaks 3. A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death 4. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 6. The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of our Times 7. Medicines, Markets, and Healing 8. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth 9. Epilogue Note Bibliography Index.
Abstract "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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2014030233
ISBN9780823261802 (cloth)
ISBN0823261808 (cloth)
ISBN9780823261819 (paper)
ISBN0823261816 (paper)

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