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• Author: Paul Farmer
• Language: English
• ISBN10: 0520229134
• ISBN13: 9780520229136
• Condition: New
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Book Overview

>>>Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with a lot more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern day plagues and shows why, even far more than those of history, they target the poor. This “peculiarly modern inequality” that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the contemporary planet, 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.
Difficult the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international well being, he points out that most existing explanatory strategies, from “cost-effectiveness” to patient “noncompliance,” inevitably lead to blaming the victims. In reality, larger forces, global as well as local, decide why some men and women are sick and other people are shielded from risk. But this moving account is far from a hopeless inventory of insoluble troubles. Farmer writes of what can be completed in the face of seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined to treat those in want. Infections and Inequalities weds meticulous scholarship with a passion for solutions–remedies for the plagues of the poor and the social maladies that have sustained them….