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[Updated edition with a new preface]. |
| Description |
1 online resource (423 pages) |
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text rdacontent |
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computer rdamedia |
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online resource rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-367) and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Communicable diseases -- Social aspects.
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People with social disabilities -- Health and hygiene.
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Poor -- Health and hygiene.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Modern plagues |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Farmer, Paul, 1959- Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999 xliv, 375 pages ; 23 cm. 9780520229136 |
| ISBN |
0520229134 |
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9780520229136 |
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9780520927087 (electronic bk.) |
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