health, disease, poverty Das, Veena creator author. text bibliography Print books. nyu 2015 2015 First edition. monographic eng

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xiv, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. "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?"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Preface 1. Affliction: An Introduction 2. How the Body Speaks 3. A Child Learns Illness and Learns Death 4. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives 5. Dangerous Liaisons: Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 6. The Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of our Times 7. Medicines, Markets, and Healing 8. Global Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth 9. Epilogue Note Bibliography Index. Veena Das. Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index. Delivery of Health Care India Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice India Culture India Family India Poverty India Stress, Psychological India RA418.5.P6 D368 2015 9780823261819 (paper) 2014030233 DNLM/DLC 140904 20170102135617.0 18293268