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

Genre:

Electronic book
Electronic books

Subjects:

Poor people--Health and hygiene--India--Delhi
Poor people--Medical care--India--Delhi
Medical care--India--Delhi
Medical care
Delhi (India)--Social conditions

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 -- Conclusion: Thoughts for the Day after Tomorrow.

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?"--Provided by publisher.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrations

Local Note:

Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937340007002486

ISBN:

9780823261833
0823261832
0823261840
9780823261840

OCLC Number:

914229941