About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780520229136ISBN:0520229134
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 1997-01-01
ISBN-13:9780520229136ISBN:0520229134
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Description: Very Good. Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: orig. boards
Publisher: Univ. of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: (1999)
Description: Some minor rubbing. Light binding corner bumps. VG., dustwrapper. 24x16cm, xiv, 375 pp, Some top page-edge soil. Contents: The Vitality of Practice: On Personal Trajectories; Rethinking " Emerging Infectious Diseases"; Invisible Women: Class, Gender & HIV; The Exotic & the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in the Caribbean; Culture, Poverty, & HIV Transmission: The Case of Rural Haiti; Miracles & Misery: An Ethnographic Interlude; Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics & Changing Concepts of ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2001-02-23
ISBN-13:9780520229136ISBN:0520229134
Description: Very Good. Book is in great condition! ! Looks almost new! ! Cover has light edge wear but pages are clean with no visible marks. Pages have minimal marks and highlighting! ! Book is in overall good condition! ! Cover shows a little wear and pages may have a few marks and/or highlighting. FAST SHIPPING W/USPS TRACKING! ! ! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2001-02-23
ISBN-13:9780520229136ISBN:0520229134
Description: Very Good. Binding tight and square. Minor shelf ware. crease in the middle of front cover. Couple of pages have bent corners. We ship daily from Tennessee! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780520229136ISBN:0520229134
Description: New. "Farmer's work diverges strikingly from the current 'emerging infectious disease' literature, much of which misses essential points about causation that Farmer brings out very well....It is sure to appeal to those general readers attracted to boo... read more
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Pri
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780520229136ISBN:0520229134
Description: New. Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, this book points out that most explanatory strategies, from 'cost-effectiveness' to patient 'noncompliance, ' inevitably lead to blaming the victims. read more
Description: Good. 0520215443 Good condition. May have some markings & or shelfwear. All pages intact. Used items may not include extras such as infotrac, CD or other web access codes. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780520215443ISBN:0520215443
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0520215443. Book is tight and text is clean. Signed by the author on title page. On first flyleaf a sticker reads: "60th Annual Soma Weiss Research Day, Harvard Medical School. Given by the Family In Memory of Soma Weiss and His Wife Elizabeth. " No other marks in book. Mild shelfwear; one small tear (1/2 cm) to lower left fron t cover of DJ.; 1.25 x 9.25 x 6.25 Inches; 389 pages. read more
"Description of Farmer's work on reemerging infectious disease and links to SES and questions of power. Interesting, but a bit preachy. Farmer is idealistic and presents what's wrong with the world and how it should be, but I was annoyed by the lack of pragmatism. How do we get there from here?"
"The thing I like about Farmer's writing is that it is an account of his actions which show that he actually gives a damn about sick and poor people and doesn't merely say he does. He backs up his assertions with his own boots-on-the-ground anthropological studies and (good) clinical outcomes in places that might reasonably be called hell. This is a good book to follow The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett if you want a deeper look at the causal link between economic/social inequality and disease acquisition and clinical outcomes."
"Really interesting so far, although the argument that poor, disadvantaged people get sick more was a little repetitive. Overall, an informative read."
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