{"product_id":"infections-and-inequalities-9780520229136","title":"Infections and Inequalities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, this book points out that most explanatory strategies, from 'cost-effectiveness' to patient 'noncompliance,' inevitably lead to blaming the victims.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The only things that distinguish Farmer's account from a Dostoevskian novel is a meed of hard, effective science and a depressingly familiar story of the powerfully malignant of racism.... It is hard to think of more compelling examples to underpin his arguments. It makes the book and its message accessible to the general reader and forcefully reminds doctors, nurses, scientists, sociologists, economists and aid workers of their unfinished business.... But the main lessons he draws are for us all. We must do all we can to diminish social inequality.\" - Hugh Pennington, Times Higher Education Supplement \"A strangely uplifting read. Infections and Inequalities is a powerful and rigorously argued critique of economic and health care inequality.\" - Phil Whitaker, The Guardian (UK) \"Bolstered by thorough knowledge of the countries in which he practiced, relevant and cogent case histories, and a caring but disciplined attitude, Farmer powerfully argues for substantial changes in epidemiological theory and practice. He raises thought-provoking and necessary questions, and he provides answers that, if often unsettling, are pertinent and capable of being put to use by individuals and governments truly interested in solving, not sidestepping, life-threatening situations.\" - William Beatty, Booklist\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the Paperback Edition\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Vitality of Practice: On Personal Trajectories\u003cbr\u003e 2. Rethinking \"Emerging Infectious Diseases\"\u003cbr\u003e 3. Invisible Women: Class, Gender, and HIV\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Exotic and the Mundane:\u003cbr\u003e Human Immunodeficiency Vrrus in the Caribbean\u003cbr\u003e 5. Culture, Poverty, and ffiV Transmission:\u003cbr\u003e The Case of Rural Haiti\u003cbr\u003e Miracles and Misery: An Ethnographic Interlude\u003cbr\u003e 6. Sending Sickness:\u003cbr\u003e Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts\u003cbr\u003e of AIDS in Rural Haiti\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Consumption of the Poor:\u003cbr\u003e Tuberculosis .in the Late Twentieth Century\u003cbr\u003e 8. Optimism and Pessimism in Tuberculosis Control:\u003cbr\u003e Lessons from Rural Haiti\u003cbr\u003e 9. Immodest Claims of Causality:\u003cbr\u003e Social Scientists and the \"New\" Tuberculosis\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Persistent Plagues:\u003cbr\u003e Biological Expressions of Social Inequalities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864846709079,"sku":"9780520229136","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520229136.jpg?v=1722273230","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/infections-and-inequalities-9780520229136","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}