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Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / / Paul Farmer
| Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / / Paul Farmer |
| Autore | Farmer Paul <1959-2022.> |
| Edizione | [[Updated edition with a new preface].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (739 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.461 |
| Soggetto topico |
Communicable diseases - Social aspects
People with social disabilities - Health and hygiene Poor - Health and hygiene |
| Soggetto non controllato |
aids
biography cancer cholera cost-effective treatment disease doctor autobiography doctors without borders drug-resistant tuberculosis ebola epidemiology herd immunity human suffering illness integrity research board international health irb medical anthropology medical students memoir new methods noncompliance pathology physician anthropologist plague revolutionary treatment scholarship stories about diseases vaccinations vaccines |
| ISBN | 0-520-92708-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781558303321 |
Farmer Paul <1959-2022.>
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / / Paul Farmer
| Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / / Paul Farmer |
| Autore | Farmer Paul <1959-2022.> |
| Edizione | [[Updated edition with a new preface].] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (739 p.) |
| Disciplina | 306.461 |
| Soggetto topico |
Communicable diseases - Social aspects
People with social disabilities - Health and hygiene Poor - Health and hygiene |
| Soggetto non controllato |
aids
biography cancer cholera cost-effective treatment disease doctor autobiography doctors without borders drug-resistant tuberculosis ebola epidemiology herd immunity human suffering illness integrity research board international health irb medical anthropology medical students memoir new methods noncompliance pathology physician anthropologist plague revolutionary treatment scholarship stories about diseases vaccinations vaccines |
| ISBN | 0-520-92708-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828901203321 |
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Farmer Paul <1959-2022.>
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| Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 1999 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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