Affliction : health, disease, poverty / / Veena Das

• Autore: Das Veena
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Fordham University Press, , 2015
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1086/942
• Soggetto topico: Poverty
• Soggetto non controllato: Illness Narrative; India; abandonment; disease; everyday life; global health; healing; health; madness; poverty
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Affliction
• ISBN: 0-8232-6891-8; 0-8232-6183-2; 0-8232-6184-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824369403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Forms of living.