Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty
by Veena Das
Fordham University Press, 2014. 255 pages
In Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty (Fordham 2014) we listen with Veena Das to ordinary ethics in challenged lives of poverty, illness, and family relations; and in three often conflicting registers of (a) advocacy, (b) moral engagement, and (c) acknowledgement of inherent uncertainties (in the very fabric …