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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...

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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.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a 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. 
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