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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Das, Veena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Forms of living.
Temas:
Poor > Health and hygiene > India > Delhi.
Poor > Medical care > India > Delhi.
Medical care > India > Delhi.
Medical care.
Culture.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Delivery of Health Care
Poverty
Stress, Psychological
Culture
Family
Pauvres > Santé et hygiène > Inde > Delhi.
Pauvres > Soins médicaux > Inde > Delhi.
Prestation de soins.
Stress.
Familles.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Poor > Health and hygiene.
Poor > Medical care.
Social conditions.
Delhi (India) > Social conditions.
India
India > Delhi.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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