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Paul Farmer

Infections and Inequalities

The Modern Plagues

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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 peculiarly modern inequality that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing memoir rife with stories about diseases and human suffering. Using field work and new scholarsh… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-0-520-92708-7
  • EAN: 9780520927087
  • Produktnummer: 21942981
  • Verlag: University of California Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
  • Seitenangabe: 424 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'495 KB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor


Paul Farmer is cofounder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His most recent book is Reimagining Global Health. Other titles include To Repair the World, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor; and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, all by UC Press.

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