Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues /
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| Format: | Electrònic eBook |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1999.
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| Edició: | [Updated edition with a new preface]. |
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| Accés en línia: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Taula de continguts:
- 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.