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AIDS and Accusation : Haiti and the Geography of Blame.
Title:
AIDS and Accusation : Haiti and the Geography of Blame.
Author:
Farmer, Paul.
ISBN:
9780520933026
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (277 pages)
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface to the 2006 Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- 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: Dieudonné -- 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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