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Affliction

by Veena Das

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"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?"--

Medicine, indiaCultureFamily, indiaPovertyStress (psychology)Delivery of Health CareHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeFamilyPsychological StressPoorHealth and hygieneMedical care