Affliction : health, disease, poverty / Veena Das.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Das, Veena, author.

Series:

Forms of living

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor--Health and hygiene--India--Delhi.

Poor.

Poor--Medical care--India--Delhi.

Medical care--India--Delhi.

Medical care.

Poor--Medical care.

Poor--Health and hygiene.

Delhi (India)--Social conditions.

Delhi (India).

Delivery of Health Care.

India.

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.

Culture.

Family.

Poverty.

Stress, Psychological.

India--Delhi.

Medical Subjects:

Delivery of Health Care.

India.

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.

Culture.

Family.

Poverty.

Stress, Psychological.

Physical Description:

xiv, 255 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

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.

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

0823261816

9780823261802

0823261808

9780823261819

OCLC:

890310123

Publisher Number:

99961346161