Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues /

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Glavni avtor: Farmer, Paul, 1959-
Format: Elektronski eKnjiga
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.
Izdaja:[Updated edition with a new preface].
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  • 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.