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Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2001.
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| Edición: | Updated with a new preface. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Acknowledgments; 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 Century8. 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; Notes; References; Index.