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Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues /

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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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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.
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Summary: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 moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer tells us what can be done in the face of seemingly over-whelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need.
Physical Description:xliv, 375 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0520229134
9780520229136