Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Paul Farmer.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999Edition: [Updated edition with a new preface]Description: 1 online resource (423 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9780520927087 (e-book)
- Modern plagues
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- RA418.5.P6 F37 1999eb
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.
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