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 livi...

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Autor principal: Das, Veena (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2015.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Forms of living.
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Acceso en línea:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Sumario:"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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.