Aids and accusation : Haiti and the geography of blame /

In this dissertation, ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022 (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of CA Press, ©2006.
Edición:Updated with a new preface.
Colección:Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
Temas:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
AIDS (Disease) > Haiti.
Medical anthropology > Haiti.
Anthropology.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > epidemiology
Anthropology
Sida > Haïti.
Anthropologie.
anthropology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
MEDICAL > General.
AIDS (Disease)
Medical anthropology.
Ethnomedizin
Aids
HIV-Infektion
AIDS.
Haiti
Haiti.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the 2006 Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • 1. Introduction
  • pt. 1. 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
  • pt. 2. AIDS comes to a Haitian village
  • 7. Manno
  • 8. Anita
  • 9. Dieudonné
  • 10. "A place ravaged by AIDS
  • pt. 3. 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."
  • pt. 4. 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
  • pt. 5. AIDS and accusation
  • 18. AIDS and sorcery : accusation in the village
  • 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.

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