Author: Paul Farmer
Edition: Updated
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520229134
Edition: Updated
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0520229134
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated with a New Preface
Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru.
Infections and Inequalities The Modern Plagues, ISBN-13: 9780520229136, ISBN-10: 0520229134
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 stories of sickness and suffering.
Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to p
Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated Edition With a New Preface by: Farmer, Paul
Hardcover. 1st edition, 1999, University of California Press, Berkeley, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 458964
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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
Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, he points out that most current explanatory strategies, from "cost-effectiveness" to p
