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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-009.mrc:76025924:3019
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LEADER: 03019cam a2200421 a 4500
001 4060726
005 20221027025939.0
008 980430t19991999cau b s001 0 eng
010 $a 98023807
020 $a0520215443 (alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)39123735
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm39123735
035 $9APN2840HS
035 $a(NNC)4060726
035 $a4060726
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC$dOrLoB-B$dNNC-M
050 00 $aRA418.5.P6$bF37 1999
082 00 $a306.4/61$221
100 1 $aFarmer, Paul,$d1959-2022.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92000717
245 10 $aInfections and inequalities :$bthe modern plagues /$cPaul Farmer.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axiv, 375 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-367) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe Vitality of Practice: On Personal Trajectories --$g2.$tRethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases" --$g3.$tInvisible Women: Class, Gender, and HIV --$g4.$tThe Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Caribbean --$g5.$tCulture, Poverty, and HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti --$tMiracles and Misery: An Ethnographic Interlude --$g6.$tSending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti --$g7.$tThe Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Late Twentieth Century --$g8.$tOptimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti --$g9.$tImmodest Claims of Causality: Social Scientists and the "New" Tuberculosis --$g10.$tThe Persistent Plagues: Biological Expressions of Social Inequalities.
520 1 $a"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."--BOOK JACKET.
520 8 $a"This moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer tells us what can be done in the face of seemingly over-whelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aPoor$xHealth and hygiene.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85104839
650 0 $aPeople with social disabilities$xHealth and hygiene.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$xSocial aspects.
650 12 $aHealth.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006262
650 12 $aPoverty.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011203
650 22 $aAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome$xprevention & control.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000163Q000517
650 22 $aPrejudice.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011287
650 22 $aSocial Conditions.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012924
650 22 $aTuberculosis$xprevention & control.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014376Q000517
852 00 $bhsl,stx$hRA418.5.P6$iF37 1999