Author: Farmer, Paul
Title: Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues
Description: Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1999). orig.boards. 24x16cm, xiv, 375 pp, Some top page-edge soil.. Some minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: The Vitality of Practice: On Personal Trajectories; Rethinking " Emerging Infectious Diseases"; Invisible Women: Class, Gender & HIV; The Exotic & the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Caribbean; Culture, Poverty, & HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti; Miracles & Misery: An Ethnographic Interlude; Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics & Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti; The Consumption of the Poor: Tuberculosis in the Late 20th Century; Optimism & Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control: Lessons from Rural Haiti; Immodent Claims of Causality: Social Scientists & the "New" Tuberculosis; The Persistent Plagues: Biological Expressions of Social Inequalities.

Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Public Health, Infectious Diseases, Communicable, Disease HIV AIDS, Caribbean Haiti, Medicine Sociology, Social Inequality, Poor Tuberculosis