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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 | ||
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Reimagining global health [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Paul Farmer ... [et al.]
| Reimagining global health [[electronic resource] ] : an introduction / / Paul Farmer ... [et al.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 362.1 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | FarmerPaul <1959-2022.> |
| Collana | California series in public anthropology |
| Soggetto topico |
World health
Health services accessibility |
| Soggetto non controllato |
anthropology
case studies conservation ethnographic perspective geographically broad approach global awareness health and wellness historical precedence history international health medicine nursing political activism political economy public health social awareness sociology sustainability theoretical transdisciplinary |
| ISBN |
0-520-27199-8
0-520-95463-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: A Biosocial Approach to Global Health -- 2. Unpacking Global Health: Theory and Critique -- 3. Colonial Medicine and Its Legacies -- 4. Health for All? Competing Theories and Geopolitics -- 5. Redefining the Possible: The Global AIDS Response -- 6. Building an Effective Rural Health Delivery Model in Haiti and Rwanda -- 7. Scaling Up Effective Delivery Models Worldwide -- 8. The Unique Challenges of Mental Health and MDRTB: Critical Perspectives on Metrics of Disease -- 9. Values and Global Health -- 10. Taking Stock of Foreign Aid -- 11. Global Health Priorities for the Early Twenty-First Century -- 12. A Movement for Global Health Equity? A Closing Reflection -- Appendix: Declaration of Alma-Ata -- Notes -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779838103321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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