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.