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Record Nr.

UNINA9910824369403321

Autore

Das Veena

Titolo

Affliction : health, disease, poverty / / Veena Das

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-8232-6891-8

0-8232-6183-2

0-8232-6184-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Forms of living

Disciplina

362.1086/942

Soggetti

Poverty

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.