Affliction health, disease, poverty

By:

Das, Veena

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Analytics: Show analyticsPublication details: New Delhi Orient BlackSwan 2015Description: xiv,255p. illustrations 24 cmISBN:

9788125057321

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

362.1086942 23 DA-A

LOC classification:

RA418.5.P6 D368 2015

NLM classification:

W 84 JI4

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?"--

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Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Status	Date due	Barcode
Print	OPJGU Sonepat- Campus	General Books	Main Library	362.1086942 DA-A (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Available		133224

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.

"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?"--

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