Urban Mahabharata: Health care, ordinary, traditional, and contemporary ethics

In Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (Fordham, 2015), we listen with Das to ordinary ethics in challenged lives of poverty, illness, and family relations; and in three registers of (a) advocacy, (b) moral engagement, and (c) acknowledgement of the inherent uncertainties in the very fabric of livi...

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Main Author: Fischer, Michael M. J. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2018-06-04T19:18:55Z.
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