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Aids and accusation : Haiti and the geography of blame / Paul Farmer.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Farmer, Paul, 1959-2022.
Series:
Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
Comparative studies of health systems and medical care
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
AIDS (Disease)--Haiti.
AIDS (Disease).
Medical anthropology--Haiti.
Medical anthropology.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (376 p.)
Edition:
Updated with a new preface.
Place of Publication:
Berkeley : University of CA Press, c2006.
Language Note:
English
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.
Contents:
Frontmatter
Contents
From Haiti to Rwanda: AIDS and Accusations
Preface to the First Edition
1. Introduction
2. The Water Refugees
3. The Remembered Valley
4. The Alexis Advantage: The Retaking of Kay
5. The Struggle for Health
6. 1986 and Mer: Narrative Truth and Political Change
7. Manno
8. Anita
9. Dieudonné
10. "A Place Ravaged by AIDS"
11. A Chronology of the AIDSIHIV Epidemic in Haiti
12. HIV in Haiti: The Dimensions of the Problem
13. Haiti and the "Accepted fisk Factors"
14. AIDS in the Caribbean: The "West Atlantic Pandemic"
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
18. AIDS and Sorcery: Accusation' in the Village
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
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-331) and index.
ISBN:
9786613303929
9781283303927
1283303922
9780520933026
0520933028
OCLC:
757261285

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