ISBN: 9780520215443

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Paul Farmer

ISBN 10: 0520215443 / 0-520-21544-3
ISBN 13: 9780520215443
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hardcover
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues: Synopsis

A modern-day plague fighter explains why diseases such as AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid target the poor and shows what can be done in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds by physicians determined to treat those in need.

 

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Farmer, Paul
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Book Description: Univ. of California Press (1999), Berkeley, 1999. orig.boards Some minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG., dustwrapper 24x16cm, xiv, 375 pp, Some top page-edge soil. 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. Some minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG., dustwrapper. Bookseller Inventory # 010396

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Book Description: University of California Press, 1999. Hardcover,ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition., 850grams, ISBN:0520215443. Bookseller Inventory # 1039006

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Farmer, Paul
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Book Description: University of California Press, 1999. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book is tight and text is clean. Signed by the author on title page. On first flyleaf a sticker reads: "60th Annual Soma Weiss Research Day, Harvard Medical School. Given by the Family In Memory of Soma Weiss and His Wife Elizabeth." No other marks in book. Mild shelfwear; one small tear (1/2 cm) to lower left fron t cover of DJ. ; 1.25 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 389 pages. Bookseller Inventory # 29670

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