TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farmer,Paul
TI  - Infections and inequalities: the modern plagues 
SN  - 9780520927087 (e-book)
AV  - RA418.5.P6 F37 1999eb
U1  - 306.461 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Communicable diseases
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - People with social disabilities
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Poor
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10769425
ER  -