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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Huvudskapare: Das, Veena (Författare, medförfattare)
Materialtyp: Elektronisk E-bok
Språk:engelska
Publicerad: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Upplaga:First edition.
Serie:Forms of living.
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Sammanfattning:"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.
Fysisk beskrivning:1 online resource (272 pages).
Bibliografi:Includes bibliographical references and index.