AIDS and accusation : Haiti and the geography of blame / Paul Farmer.
In this book ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social responses...
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[1992]
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| Series: | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care.
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Table of Contents:
- 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. 7. Manno ; 8. Anita ; 9. Dieudonne ; 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 ; 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. 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.