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Autore |
Farmer Paul <1959-2022.> |
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Titolo |
Aids and accusation [[electronic resource] ] : Haiti and the geography of blame / / Paul Farmer |
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Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-30392-2 |
9786613303929 |
0-520-93302-8 |
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Edizione |
[Updated with a new preface.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (376 p.) |
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Collana |
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Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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AIDS (Disease) - Haiti |
Medical anthropology - Haiti |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-331) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- From Haiti to Rwanda: AIDS and Accusations -- Preface to the First Edition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Water Refugees -- 3. The Remembered Valley -- 4. The Alexis Advantage: The Retaking of Kay -- 5. The Struggle for Health -- 6. 1986 and Mer: Narrative Truth and Political Change -- 7. Manno -- 8. Anita -- 9. Dieudonné -- 10. "A Place Ravaged by AIDS" -- 11. A Chronology of the AIDSIHIV Epidemic in Haiti -- 12. HIV in Haiti: The Dimensions of the Problem -- 13. Haiti and the "Accepted fisk Factors" -- 14. AIDS in the Caribbean: The "West Atlantic Pandemic" -- 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 -- 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first |
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