Affliction : Health, Disease, Poverty /

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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
Autor principal: Das, Veena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Poor > Medical care.
Poor > Health and hygiene.
Medical care.
Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Familles.
Stress.
Prestation de soins.
Pauvres > Soins medicaux > Inde > Delhi.
Pauvres > Sante et hygiene > Inde > Delhi.
Family
Culture
Stress, Psychological
Poverty
Delivery of Health Care
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
Medical care > India > Delhi.
Poor > Medical care > India > Delhi.
Poor > Health and hygiene > India > Delhi.
India > Delhi.
India
Delhi (India) > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
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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