Aids and accusation [[electronic resource] ] : Haiti and the geography of blame / / Paul Farmer |
Autore | Farmer Paul <1959-2022.> |
Edizione | [Updated with a new preface.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of CA Press, c2006 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/61 |
Collana | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
Soggetto topico |
AIDS (Disease) - Haiti
Medical anthropology - Haiti |
Soggetto non controllato |
academia
anthropologist class war cultural anthropology diagnosis environmental justice ethnocentric ethnocentrism ethnographic study ethnographies ethnography excellent analysis haitian studies health studies historical hiv aids hiv epidemic international drama medical conditions medical history medicine new preface political race and racism theoretical tragic updated edition |
ISBN |
1-283-30392-2
9786613303929 0-520-93302-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781731803321 |
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Down in New Orleans [[electronic resource] ] : reflections from a drowned city / / Billy Sothern ; photographs by Nikki Page |
Autore | Sothern Billy <1977-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (370 p.) |
Disciplina | 976.3/35064 |
Soggetto topico |
Hurricane Katrina, 2005
Hurricanes - Louisiana - New Orleans Disaster victims - Louisiana - New Orleans Emergency management - Government policy - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
apocalypse
class war climate change disenfranchisement environmental activism flooding iranian latin americans latino latinx levy break louisiana mardi gras middle eastern author natural disaster natural disasters new orleans post apocalyptic scenario post-katrina race and racism southern cities trailer park university textbook |
ISBN |
1-282-76228-1
9786612762284 0-520-93384-2 1-4356-0200-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. A Man Leaves Home -- Chapter 2. A Stranger Comes to Town -- Chapter 3. "This Blues Is Just Too Big" -- Chapter 4. A Dollar Short -- Chapter 5. Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short -- Chapter 6. Not in My Backyard -- Chapter 7. Left to Die -- Chapter 8. Bring the War Home -- Chapter 9. The Dry Run of the Apocalypse -- Chapter 10. History Repeats Itself -- Chapter 11. Going Home -- Chapter 12. Oxford Town -- Chapter 13. I Do Believe I've Had Enough -- Chapter 14. Everyday Reminders -- Chapter 15. Second Line -- Chapter 16. Gideon's Blues -- Chapter 17. Live from the Circle Bar -- Chapter 18. Corporate Limits -- Chapter 19. Fat Tuesday -- Chapter 20. Hard Lot -- Chapter 21. La Nueva Orleans -- Chapter 22. Yours in Struggle -- Chapter 23. In the Parish -- Chapter 24. Not Resigned -- Chapter 25. Epitaph -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778116803321 |
Sothern Billy <1977->
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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