Affliction : : health, disease, poverty / / Veena Das.

• Superior document: Forms of living
• VerfasserIn: Das, Veena,
• Place / Publishing House: New York : : Fordham University Press,, 2015.
• Blwyddyn Gyhoeddi: 2015
• Rhifyn: First edition.
• Iaith: English
• Cyfres: Forms of living.
• Disgrifiad Corfforoll: 1 online resource (272 pages).
• Crynodeb: "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.
• Llyfryddiaeth: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9780823261802 (cloth); 9780823261819 (paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Veena Das.

"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...