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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.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the paperback edition
  • Acknowledgements
  • 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 century
  • 8. 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.