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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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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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