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200 10$aInfections and inequalities $ethe modern plagues /$fPaul Farmer
205   $a[Updated edition with a new preface].
210  1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d1999.
215   $a1 online resource (739 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-299-92694-0 
311   $a0-520-22913-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 283-367) and index.
327   $aPreface 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.
330   $aPaul 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 "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering.Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to patient "noncompliance," inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, determine why some people are sick and others are shielded from risk. Yet this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer writes of what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions-remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them.
606   $aCommunicable diseases$xSocial aspects
606   $aPeople with social disabilities$xHealth and hygiene
606   $aPoor$xHealth and hygiene
610   $aaids.
610   $abiography.
610   $acancer.
610   $acholera.
610   $acost-effective treatment.
610   $adisease.
610   $adoctor autobiography.
610   $adoctors without borders.
610   $adrug-resistant tuberculosis.
610   $aebola.
610   $aepidemiology.
610   $aherd immunity.
610   $ahuman suffering.
610   $aillness.
610   $aintegrity research board.
610   $ainternational health.
610   $airb.
610   $amedical anthropology.
610   $amedical students.
610   $amemoir.
610   $anew methods.
610   $anoncompliance.
610   $apathology.
610   $aphysician anthropologist.
610   $aplague.
610   $arevolutionary treatment.
610   $ascholarship.
610   $astories about diseases.
610   $avaccinations.
610   $avaccines.
615  0$aCommunicable diseases$xSocial aspects.
615  0$aPeople with social disabilities$xHealth and hygiene.
615  0$aPoor$xHealth and hygiene.
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