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1 online resource (376 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the 2006 Edition; Preface to the First Edition; 1. Introduction; Part I: Misfortunes Without Number; 2. The Water Refugees; 3. The Remembered Valley; 4. The Alexis Advantage: The Retaking of Kay; 5. The Struggle for Health; 6. 1986 and After: Narrative Truth and Political Change; Part II: Aids Comes to a Haitian Village; 8. Anita; 9. Dieudonné; 10. "A Place Ravaged by AIDS"; Part III: The Exotic and the Mundane: Hiv in Haiti; 11. A Chronology of the AIDS/HIV Epidemic in Haiti; 12. HIV in Haiti: The Dimensions of the Problem |
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13. Haiti and the "Accepted Risk Factors"14. AIDS in the Caribbean: The "West Atlantic Pandemic"; Part IV: Aids, History, Political Economy; 15. Many Masters: The European Domination of Haiti; 16. The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Years of Solitude?; 17. The United States and the People with History; Part V: Aids and Accusation; 19. AIDS and Racism: Accusation in the Center; 20. AIDS and Empire: Accusation in the Periphery; 21. Blame, Cause, Etiology, and Accusation; 22. Conclusion: AIDS and an Anthropology of Suffering; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
AIDS (Disease) -- Haiti
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Medical anthropology -- Haiti
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AIDS (Disease)
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Medical anthropology
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Haiti
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780520933026 |
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0520933028 |
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