Breathless : Tuberculosis, Inequality, and Care in Rural India
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
819463136X
ISBN-13
9788194631361
Publisher
Navayana Publishing Pvt Ltd
Imprint
Navayana Publishing Pvt Ltd
Country of Manufacture
IN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 15th, 2024
Print length
273 Pages
Weight
344 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.00 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Respiratory medicine
Ksh 4,100.00
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With chapters on dust, clouds, breath, mud, and ghosts, McDowell develops a philosophy and phenomenology of breathing that attends to medical systems, patient care, and health justice.
Welcome to Ambawati. A village in Rajasthan, midway between Delhi and Mumbai, where the western wind kicks up a dust. It irritates the lungs. The residents are mostly Adivasis and Dalits. Tuberculosis is rampant. It is entangled with inequality. This is the price the marginalized pay for health and policy decisions made in faraway Delhi and Geneva. Andrew McDowell gets entangled in the lives of the people of Ambawati, spending time at tea stalls, clinics, bedsides, fields, forests, and with nurses, doctors, quacks, mediums and mystics. He shows us how TB is an atmospheric illness dictated by social and biological realities.
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