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Author Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022

Title Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Paul Farmer.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Cal. : University of California Press, [1999]
©1999

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  306.4 FAR    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  306.461 FARMER    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 375 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-367) and index.
Contents The vitality of practice: on personal trajectories. -- Rethinking "emerging infectious diseases". -- Invisible women: class, gender, and HIV. -- The exotic and the mundane: human immunodeficiency virus in the Caribbean. -- Culture, poverty, and HIV transmission: the case of rural Haiti. ; Miracles and misery: an ethnographic interlude. -- Sending sickness: sorcery, politics, and changing concepts of AIDS in rural Haiti. -- The consumption of the poor: tuberculosis in the
late twentieth century.-- Optimism and pessimism in tuberculosis control: lessons from rural Haiti. -- Immodest claims of causality: social scientists and the "new" tuberculosis. -- The persistent plagues: biological expressions of social inequalities.
Subject Medical Indigency -- Personal Narratives.
Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology.
Communicable diseases -- Social aspects.
People with social disabilities -- Health and hygiene.
Local Subject Poor people -- Health and hygiene.
Subject Social Medicine.
Poor -- Health and hygiene.
Anthropology.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Developing Countries -- Personal Narratives.
ISBN 0520215443 alkaline paper
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