MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aRA418.5.P6$bF37 1999
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100 1 $aFarmer, Paul,$d1959-
245 10 $aInfections and inequalities :$bthe modern plagues /$cPaul Farmer.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc1999.
300 $axiv, 375 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-367) and index.
505 0 $aThe vitality of practice: on personal trajectories. -- Rethinking "emerging infectious diseases". -- Invisible women: class, gender, and HIV. -- The exotic and the mundane: human immunodeficiency virus in the Caribbean. -- Culture, poverty, and HIV transmission: the case of rural Haiti. ; Miracles and misery: an ethnographic interlude. -- Sending sickness: sorcery, politics, and changing concepts of AIDS in rural Haiti. -- The consumption of the poor: tuberculosis in the late twentieth century.-- Optimism and pessimism in tuberculosis control: lessons from rural Haiti. -- Immodest claims of causality: social scientists and the "new" tuberculosis. -- The persistent plagues: biological expressions of social inequalities.
650 0 $aPoor$xHealth and hygiene.
650 0 $aSocially handicapped$xHealth and hygiene.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aTuberculosis$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$xSocial aspects.
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