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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Main Author: Das, Veena 1945- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Fordham University Press 2015
Edition:First edition
Series:Forms of living
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Online Access:FUBA1
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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?"--Provided by publisher
Item Description:Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (254 Seiten)
ISBN:9780823268917
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823261802.001.0001

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