| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 255 pages) : illustrations. |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Series |
Forms of living
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Forms of living.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and 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 |
| Contents |
How the Body Speaks -- A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death -- Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives -- Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits -- The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of Our Times -- Medicines, Markets, and Healing -- Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth -- Conclusion: Thoughts for the Day after Tomorrow. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Poor -- Health and hygiene -- India -- Delhi.
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Poor -- Health and hygiene. |
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India -- Delhi. |
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Poor -- Medical care -- India -- Delhi.
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Poor -- Medical care. |
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Medical care -- India -- Delhi.
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Medical care. |
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Delhi (India) -- Social conditions.
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Medical care.
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Culture.
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India. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. |
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Culture. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. |
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Social conditions. |
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Medical care. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Das, Veena. Affliction. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, [2015] 9780823261802 9780823261819 (DLC) 2014030233 (OCoLC)890310123 |
| ISBN |
9780823261833 (electronic book) |
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0823261832 (electronic book) |
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0823261840 |
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9780823261840 |
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9780823261802 (cloth) |
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0823261808 (cloth) |
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9780823261819 (paper) |
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0823261816 (paper) |
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