Affliction : : Health, Disease, Poverty / / Veena Das.
Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstance...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Forms of Living
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Affliction: An Introduction
- 1. How the Body Speaks
- 2. A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death
- 3. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives
- 4. Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits
- 5. The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of Our Times
- 6. Medicines, Markets, and Healing
- 7. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth
- Conclusion: Thoughts for the Day after Tomorrow
- References
- Index