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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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Farmer, Paul, 1959-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Edition:	[Updated ed. with a new preface].
Subjects:	Poor > Health and hygiene. People with social disabilities > Health and hygiene. Communicable diseases > Social aspects. Health. Poverty. Social Medicine. Communicable Diseases > epidemiology. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome > prevention & control. Tuberculosis > prevention & control. Medical Indigency. Developing Countries. Personal Narratives.