| AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Updated with a New Preface Updated Edition Contributor(s): Farmer, Paul (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520248392 ISBN-13: 9780520248397 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $29.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: "Praise for the first edition: "Farmer's sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at [the village of] Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face and an emotional edge.... The book is at the same time fiercely personal and coldly objective. The result is both moving and illuminating."-- "Science "Farmer renders a richly layered and nuanced ethnographic portrait."-- "Harvard Educational Review "This superbly crafted volume is dedicated to explaining and refuting a popular U.S. belief that AIDS came to the United States from Haiti. . . . Farmer has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the 'anthropology of suffering, ' the assessment of illness as perceived and experienced by a patient embedded in an interlocking fabric of culture and history."-- "Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Medical | Aids & Hiv - Medical | Epidemiology |
| Dewey: 306.461 |
| LCCN: 2005046650 |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 6.66" W x 8.88" (1.11 lbs) 372 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies - Topical - AIDS |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |