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020 _a9780823261819 (paper)
020 _z0823261808 (cloth)
020 _z9780823261802 (cloth)
020 _z0823261816 (paper)
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042 _apcc
049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 0 0 _aRA418.5.P6
_bD368 2015
100 1 _aDas, Veena,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aAffliction :
_bhealth, disease, poverty /
_cVeena Das.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _c2015
264 1 _aNew York :
_bFordham University Press,
_c[2015]
300 _axiv, 255 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aForms of living
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.
505 8 _aMachine 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.
520 _a"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?"--
650 1 2 _aDelivery of Health Care
_zIndia.
650 1 2 _aHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
_zIndia.
650 2 2 _aCulture
_zIndia.
650 2 2 _aFamily
_zIndia.
650 2 2 _aPoverty
_zIndia.
650 2 2 _aStress, Psychological
_zIndia.
655 0 _2local
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_aPrint books.
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_cBOOKS