Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty

by Veena Das

Book Overview

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?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823261816
• ISBN13: 9780823261819
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"