Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Paul Farmer.
Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Paul Farmer.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
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N306.461/31
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English
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xiv, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
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 --...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1999.
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California
Date Published
c1999.
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Paul 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 moving account...
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Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues / Paul Farmer.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-367) and index.
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c1999.
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N306.461/31
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0520229134
9780520215443 (alk. paper)
0520215443 (alk. paper)
9780520215443 :
0520215443 :
9780520229136(pbk.) :
0520229134(pbk.) :
9780520229136
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306.461
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991011798029702626
