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Affliction : Health, Disease, Poverty /

"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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"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?"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource: illustrations ;
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.
ISBN:9780823261833