Infections and Inequalities The Modern Plagues

Name: Infections and Inequalities The Modern Plagues
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ISBN: 9780520229136

ISBN-10: 0520229134

ISBN-13: 9780520229136

Edition: 2nd 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Paul Farmer

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Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering. Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most…

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List price: $29.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 2/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 422
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.98" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Vitality of Practice: On Personal Trajectories



Rethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases"



Invisible Women: Class, Gender, and HIV



The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Caribbean



Culture, Poverty, and HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti


Miracles and Misery: An Ethnographic Interlude



Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti



The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Late Twentieth Century



Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti



Immodest Claims of Causality: Social Scientists and the "New" Tuberculosis



The Persistent Plagues: Biological Expressions of Social Inequalities


Notes


References


Index