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AIDS and Accusation Paul Farmer

AIDS and Accusation von Paul Farmer

AIDS and Accusation Paul Farmer


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Zusammenfassung

Does the scientific theory that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the USA rather than from hard evidence? This study answers in the affirmative, providing a detailed ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society.

AIDS and Accusation Zusammenfassung

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame Paul Farmer

Does the scientific theory that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the USA rather than from hard evidence? Anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers in the affirmative with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. Farmer was present when the first case of AIDS was registered in the rural Haitian village of Kay, a peasant community rendered particularly vulnerable to AIDS, he maintains, by extreme poverty. With moving directness, Farmer tells what happened when this society was invaded by a mysterious and deadly plague. He follows the case histories of three afflicted individuals, linking their experience to large-scale forces that have shaped the AIDS pandemic. How, he asks, did HIV come to Haiti, and when did it arrive? How far has it spread? How is it transmitted, and who is at risk? What might explain the profusion of theories about a Haitian origin of AIDS? His search for answers reaches into the domains of epidemiology, history, and political economy. Farmer brings into sharp focus the relation of AIDS to poverty and racism, and the responsibility of scientists and policy makers to develop a more global awareness of this infectious disease that runs along the fault lines of our international order.

Über Paul Farmer

Paul Farmer is an instructor in Social Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a research resident in internal medicine at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital. With doctorates in both medicine and social anthropology, he conducts his research and medical practice in Haiti.

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GOR013406393
9780520077010
0520077016
AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame Paul Farmer
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Gebundene Ausgabe
University of California Press
19920826
338
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