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050 00 $aRA644.A25$bF37 2006
060 00 $a2006 F-284
060 10 $aWC 503.4 DH2$bF234a 2006
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100 1 $aFarmer, Paul,$d1959-
245 10 $aAIDS and accusation :$bHaiti and the geography of blame /$cPaul Farmer.
250 $aUpdated with a new preface.
260 $aBerkeley :$bUniversity of California Press,$cc2006.
300 $axxxii, 338 p. ;$c23 cm.
440 0 $aComparative studies of health systems and medical care
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-331) and index.
505 00 $tPreface to the 2006 Edition --$tPreface to the First Edition --$g1.$tIntroduction --$gpt. 1.$tMisfortunes without number --$g2.$tThe water refugees --$g3.$tThe remembered valley --$g4.$tThe Alexis advantage : the retaking of Kay --$g5.$tThe struggle for health --$g6.$t1986 and after : narrative truth and political change --$gpt. 2.$tAIDS comes to a Haitian village --$g7.$tManno --$g8.$tAnita --$g9.$tDieudonné --$g10. "A$tplace ravaged by AIDS --$gpt. 3.$tThe exotic and the mundane : HIV in Haiti --$g11.$tA chronology of the AIDS/HIV epidemic in Haiti --$g12.$tHIV in Haiti : the dimensions of the problem --$g13.$tHaiti and the "accepted risk factors" --$g14.$tAIDS in the Caribbean : the "West Atlantic pandemic."
505 00 $gpt. 4.$tAIDS, history, political economy --$g15.$tMany masters : the European domination of Haiti --$g16.$tThe nineteenth century : one hundred years of solitude? --$g17.$tThe United States and the people with history --$gpt. 5.$tAIDS and accusation --$g18.$tAIDS and sorcery : accusation in the village --$g19.$tAIDS and racism : accusation in the center --$g20.$tAIDS and empire : accusation in the periphery --$g21.$tBlame, cause, etiology, and accusation --$g22.$tConclusion : AIDS and an anthropology of suffering --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex.
520 $aIn this dissertation, ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social responses to AIDS in rural and urban Haiti, and in parts of North America. History and its calculus of economic and symbolic power also help to explain why residents of a small village in rural Haiti came to understand AIDS in the manner that they did. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, the evolution of a cultural model of AIDS is traced. In a small village in rural Haiti, it was possible to document first the lack of such a model, and then the elaboration over time of a widely shared representation of AIDS. The experience of three villagers who died of complications of AIDS is examined in detail, and the importance of their suffering to the evolution of a cultural model is demonstrated. Epidemiologic and ethnographic studies are prefaced by a geographically broad historical analysis, which suggests the outlines of relations between a powerful center (the United States) and a peripheral client state (Haiti). These relations constitute an important part of a political-economic network termed the "West Atlantic system." The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean is reviewed, and the relation between the degree of involvement in the West Atlantic system and the prevalence of HIV is suggested. It is further suggested that the history of HIV in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas is similar to that documented here for Haiti.
650 0 $aAIDS (Disease)$zHaiti.
650 0 $aMedical anthropology$zHaiti.
650 12 $aAcquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome$xepidemiology$zHaiti.
650 22 $aAnthropology$zHaiti.
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005046650-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0624/2005046650-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005046650-t.html