Affliction health, disease, poverty
Das, Veena
Affliction health, disease, poverty - New Delhi Orient BlackSwan 2015 - Forms of living .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.
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.
"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?"--
9788125057321
2014030233
Delivery of Health Care--India.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice--India.
Culture--India.
Family--India.
Poverty--India.
Stress, Psychological--India.
RA418.5.P6 / D368 2015
W 84 JI4
Affliction health, disease, poverty - New Delhi Orient BlackSwan 2015 - Forms of living .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index.
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.
"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?"--
9788125057321
2014030233
Delivery of Health Care--India.
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice--India.
Culture--India.
Family--India.
Poverty--India.
Stress, Psychological--India.
RA418.5.P6 / D368 2015
W 84 JI4