02587nam a22004211i 4500 ebr10769425 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 040421s1999 cau ob s001 0 eng d 9780520927087 (e-book) 0520229134 9780520229136 CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)868008057 RA418.5.P6 F37 1999eb 306.461 21 Farmer, Paul, 1959- Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Paul Farmer. Modern plagues [Updated edition with a new preface]. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999. 1 online resource (423 pages) text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier 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. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Communicable diseases Social aspects. People with social disabilities Health and hygiene. Poor Health and hygiene. Electronic books. Print version: Farmer, Paul, 1959- Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999 xliv, 375 pages ; 23 cm. 9780520229136 ebrary. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10769425 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 125961 125961