Affliction : health, disease, poverty / Veena Das.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Das, Veena, author.

Series:

Forms of living.

Forms of living

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poverty.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8232-6891-8

0-8232-6183-2

0-8232-6184-0

OCLC:

899007525