Infections and Inequalities,9780520229136

Infections and Inequalities

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ISBN13: 9780520229136
ISBN10: 0520229134
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-01-01
Publisher(s): Univ of California Pr
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Summary

A report from the front lines of the war against the most deadly epidemics of our times, by a physician-anthropolpgist who has for over 15 years sought to serve the poor of rural Haiti and other settings in the Americas.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition xi
Acknowledgments xli
Introduction 1(17)
The Vitality of Practice: On Personal Trajectories
18(19)
Rethinking ``Emerging Infectious Diseases''
37(22)
Invisible Women: Class, Gender, and HIV
59(35)
The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Caribbean
94(33)
Culture, Poverty, and HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti
127(31)
Miracles and Misery: An Ethnographic Interlude
150(8)
Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti
158(26)
The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Late Twentieth Century
184(27)
Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti
211(17)
Immodest Claims of Causality: Social Scientists and the ``New'' Tuberculosis
228(34)
The Persistent Plagues: Biological Expressions of Social Inequalities
262(21)
Notes 283(36)
References 319(50)
Index 369

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