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Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Edición:Updated with a new preface.
Temas:
Poor > Health and hygiene.
People with social disabilities > Health and hygiene.
Communicable diseases > Social aspects.
Pauvres > Santé et hygiène.
Personnes socialement défavorisées > Santé et hygiène.
Maladies infectieuses > Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MEDICAL > General.
Communicable diseases > Social aspects
People with social disabilities > Health and hygiene
Poor > Health and hygiene
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Sumario:Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering. Challengi.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (739 pages)
ISBN:9780520927087
0520927087

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