the modern plagues Farmer, Paul 1959- creator text bibliography Electronic books. cau 1999 [Updated edition with a new preface]. monographic eng 1 online resource (423 pages) 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. Paul Farmer. Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-367) and index. Communicable diseases Social aspects People with social disabilities Health and hygiene Poor Health and hygiene RA418.5.P6 F37 1999eb 306.461 Farmer, Paul, 1959- Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999 xliv, 375 pages ; 23 cm. 9780520927087 (e-book) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10769425 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10769425 CaPaEBR 040421 ebr10769425 eng