Infections and inequalities :
Farmer, Paul, 1959-
Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Modern plagues Paul Farmer. - [Updated edition with a new preface]. - 1 online resource (423 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-367) and index.
Preface to the paperback edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The vitality of practice : on personal trajectories -- 2. Rethinking "emerging infectious diseases" -- 3. Invisible women : class, gender, and HIV -- 4. The exotic and the mundane : human immunodeficiency virus in the Caribbean -- 5. Culture, poverty, and HIV transmission : the case of rural Haiti ; Miracles and misery : an ethnographic interlude -- 6. Sending sickness : sorcery, politics, and changing concepts of AIDS in rural Haiti -- 7. The consumption of the poor : tuberculosis in the late twentieth century -- 8. Optimism and pessimism in tuberculosis control : lessons from rural Haiti -- 9. Immodest claims of causality: social scientists and the "new" tuberculosis -- 10. The persistent plagues : biological expressions of social inequalities.
9780520927087 (e-book)
Communicable diseases--Social aspects.
People with social disabilities--Health and hygiene.
Poor--Health and hygiene.
Electronic books.
RA418.5.P6 / F37 1999eb
306.461
Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Modern plagues Paul Farmer. - [Updated edition with a new preface]. - 1 online resource (423 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-367) and index.
Preface to the paperback edition -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. The vitality of practice : on personal trajectories -- 2. Rethinking "emerging infectious diseases" -- 3. Invisible women : class, gender, and HIV -- 4. The exotic and the mundane : human immunodeficiency virus in the Caribbean -- 5. Culture, poverty, and HIV transmission : the case of rural Haiti ; Miracles and misery : an ethnographic interlude -- 6. Sending sickness : sorcery, politics, and changing concepts of AIDS in rural Haiti -- 7. The consumption of the poor : tuberculosis in the late twentieth century -- 8. Optimism and pessimism in tuberculosis control : lessons from rural Haiti -- 9. Immodest claims of causality: social scientists and the "new" tuberculosis -- 10. The persistent plagues : biological expressions of social inequalities.
9780520927087 (e-book)
Communicable diseases--Social aspects.
People with social disabilities--Health and hygiene.
Poor--Health and hygiene.
Electronic books.
RA418.5.P6 / F37 1999eb
306.461