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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Autor principal: Das, Veena (Autor)
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edició:First edition.
Col·lecció:Forms of living.
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Accés en línia:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Sumari:"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.
Descripció física:1 online resource (272 pages).
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references and index.