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Affliction - Health, Disease, Poverty (Hardcover)
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Affliction - Health, Disease, Poverty (Hardcover)
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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 different healers
understand their own practices. The astonishing range of
practitioners found in the local markets in the poor neighborhoods
of Delhi shows how the magical and the technical are knotted
together in the therapeutic experience of healers and patients. The
book asks: What is expert knowledge? What is it that the
practitioner knows and what does the patient know? How are these
different forms of knowledge brought together in the clinical
encounter, broadly defined? How does this event of everyday life
bear the traces of larger policies at the national and global
levels? Finally, the book interrogates the models of disease
prevalence and global programming that emphasize surveillance over
care and deflect attention away from the specificities of local
worlds. Yet the analysis offered retains an openness to different
ways of conceptualizing "what is happening" and stimulates a
conversation between different disciplinary orientations to health,
disease, and poverty. Most studies of health and disease focus on
the encounter between patient and practitioner within the space of
the clinic. This book instead privileges the networks of relations,
institutions, and knowledge over which the experience of illness is
dispersed. Instead of thinking of illness as an event set apart
from everyday life, it shows the texture of everyday life, the
political economy of neighborhoods, as well as the dark side of
care. It helps us see how illness is bound by the contexts in which
it occurs, while also showing how illness transcends these contexts
to say something about the nature of everyday life and the making
of subjects.
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