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AIDS and Accusation : Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Updated with a New Preface.
Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2006.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the 2006 Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1. Introduction; Part I: Misfortunes Without Number; 2. The Water Refugees; 3. The Remembered Valley; 4. The Alexis Advantage: The Retaking of Kay; 5. The Struggle for Health; 6. 1986 and After: Narrative Truth and Political Change; Part II: Aids Comes to a Haitian Village; 8. Anita; 9. Dieudonné; 10. "A Place Ravaged by AIDS"; Part III: The Exotic and the Mundane: Hiv in Haiti; 11. A Chronology of the AIDS/HIV Epidemic in Haiti; 12. HIV in Haiti: The Dimensions of the Problem.
- 13. Haiti and the "Accepted Risk Factors"14. AIDS in the Caribbean: The "West Atlantic Pandemic"; Part IV: Aids, History, Political Economy; 15. Many Masters: The European Domination of Haiti; 16. The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Years of Solitude?; 17. The United States and the People with History; Part V: Aids and Accusation; 19. AIDS and Racism: Accusation in the Center; 20. AIDS and Empire: Accusation in the Periphery; 21. Blame, Cause, Etiology, and Accusation; 22. Conclusion: AIDS and an Anthropology of Suffering; Notes; Bibliography; Index.