| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (272 pages). |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Series |
Forms of living |
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Forms of living.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Poverty.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Das, Veena. Affliction : health, disease, poverty. New York : Fordham University Press, 2015 Forms of living 9780823261802 (DNLM)101640567 (DLC)10987134 |
| ISBN |
9780823261802 (cloth) |
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9780823261819 (paper) |
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