Das Veena

Affliction : Health, disease, poverty - Hyderabad Orient BlackSwan 2015 - HB

Contents: 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

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Medical Care - Delhi - India
Poor - Health & Hygiene - Social Conditions
Poverty - Suffering - Diseases - Social Aspects

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