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_beng
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035 _a(OCoLC)868008057
050 1 4 _aRA418.5.P6
_bF37 1999eb
082 0 4 _a306.461
_221
100 1 _aFarmer, Paul,
_d1959-
245 1 0 _aInfections and inequalities :
_bthe modern plagues /
_cPaul Farmer.
246 3 0 _aModern plagues
250 _a[Updated edition with a new preface].
264 1 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c1999.
300 _a1 online resource (423 pages)
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-367) and index.
505 0 _aPreface 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.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aCommunicable diseases
_xSocial aspects.
650 0 _aPeople with social disabilities
_xHealth and hygiene.
650 0 _aPoor
_xHealth and hygiene.
655 0 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aFarmer, Paul, 1959-
_tInfections and inequalities : the modern plagues.
_dBerkeley : University of California Press, 1999
_hxliv, 375 pages ; 23 cm.
_z9780520229136
797 2 _aebrary.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10769425
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
999 _c125961
_d125961