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Entwicklungsländer.

Infections and inequalities :the modern plagues /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Infections and inequalities :/ Paul Farmer.
Reminder of title:	the modern plagues /
remainder title:	Modern plagues
Author:	Farmer, Paul,
Published:	Berkeley :University of California Press, : 1999.,
Description:	xliv, 375 p. ;23 cm.;
基督教聖經之智慧書導讀 :	Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer tells us what can be done in the face of seemingly over-whelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need.
Subject:	Morbidität. -
Subject:	Entwicklungsländer. -
ISBN:	0520229134

Infections and inequalities :the modern plagues /
Farmer, Paul,1959-

Infections and inequalities :the modern plagues /Modern plaguesPaul Farmer. - Berkeley :University of California Press,1999. - xliv, 375 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-367) and index.

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.

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble problems. Farmer tells us what can be done in the face of seemingly over-whelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in need.

ISBN: 0520229134Subjects--Topical Terms:

391128
Morbidität.
Subjects--Geographical Terms:

391121
Entwicklungsländer.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

257439
Personal Narratives.

LC Class. No.: RA418.5.P6 / F37 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 306.461

National Library of Medicine Call No.: WA30 / F234i 2001

Infections and inequalities :the modern plagues /
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