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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Comparative studies of health systems and medical care ; no. 33.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.Description: xiv, 338 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0520077016 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0520083431 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/61 20
LOC classification:
  • RA644.A25 F37 1992
Contents:
1. Introduction -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. II. AIDS Comes to a Haitian Village. 7. Manno. 8. Anita. 9. Dieudonne. 10. "A Place Ravaged by AIDS" -- Pt. 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" -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-331) and index.

1. Introduction -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. II. AIDS Comes to a Haitian Village. 7. Manno. 8. Anita. 9. Dieudonne. 10. "A Place Ravaged by AIDS" -- Pt. 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" -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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.

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