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Affliction

Paperback • 2015 • English

Affliction

By Veena Das

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About the book

Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues.First, 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?A second set of issues involves how differen...Show more

Medical sociology

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ISBN

9780823261819

Publisher

Fordham University Press

Published year

2015

Language

English

Original title

Affliction

Format

Paperback

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