Affliction - Health, Disease, Poverty

Informationen zum Autor Veena Das is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Klappentext 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? Zusammenfassung Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi! this book stitches together three different sets of issues. It examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal putting resources! relationships! and even one's world into jeopardy?

Product details

• Authors: Veena Das
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9780823261819
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-6181-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Forms of Living (FUP); Forms of Living; Forms of Living
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine