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Breathless
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Andrew McDowell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. He has a Ph.D. in sociocultural anthropology from Harvard University. His work has appeared in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Ethos, Biosocieties, and The Lancet.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9788194631361
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Navayana Publishing, (15 September 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 273
- Weight
- 356 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 229 x 152 x 21 mm
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