ISBN:
0823261808
,
0823261816
,
9780823261802
,
9780823261819
Language:
English
Pages:
XIV, 255 S.
,
graph. Darst.
,
24 cm
Edition:
First edition
Series Statement:
Forms of living
DDC:
362.1086/942
Keywords:
Delivery of Health Care
;
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
;
Culture
;
Family
;
Poverty
;
Stress, Psychological
;
œaCultureœzIndia
;
œaDelivery of Health CareœzIndia
;
œaFamilyœzIndia
;
œaHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeœzIndia
;
œaPovertyœzIndia
;
œaStress, PsychologicalœzIndia
;
Indien
;
Armut
;
Krankheit
;
Psychosoziale Situation
Abstract:
"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?"--
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-248) and index
