Affliction : health, disease, poverty

Author/Creator:

Das, Veena, author

Publication/Creation:

New York : Fordham University Press, [2015]

Format:

Book

Edition:

First edition.

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Affliction : health, disease, poverty / Veena Das

Series Titles:

Forms of living
Forms of living.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Poor people--Health and hygiene--India--Delhi
Poor people--Medical care--India--Delhi
Medical care--India--Delhi
Delivery of Health Care
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Culture
Family
Poverty
Stress, Psychological
Medical care
Family members
Delhi (India)--Social conditions
India

Description/Summary

Table of 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.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.

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?"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990035881230302486

ISBN:

9780823261802 (cloth)
0823261808 (cloth)
9780823261819 (paper)
0823261816 (paper)

OCLC Number:

890310123

Barcode:

010002836765