6. Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, And Changing Concepts Of Aids In Rural Haiti

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface To The Paperback Edition xi
4. Acknowledgments xli
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. The Vitality Of Practice: On Personal Trajectories 18
7. 2. Rethinking "Emerging Infectious Diseases" 37
8. 3. Invisible Women: Class, Gender, And Hiv 59
9. 4. The Exotic And The Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus In The Caribbean 94
10. 5. Culture, Poverty, And Hiv Transmission: The Case Of Rural Haiti 127
11. Miracles And Misery: An Ethnographic Interlude 150
12. 6. Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, And Changing Concepts Of Aids In Rural Haiti 158
13. 7. The Consumption Of The Poor: Tuberculosis In The Late Twentieth Century 184
14. 8. Optimism And Pessimism In Tuberculosis Control: Lessons From Rural Haiti 211
15. 9. Immodest Claims Of Causality: Social Scientists And The "New" Tuberculosis 228
16. 10. The Persistent Plagues: Biological Expressions Of Social Inequalities 262
17. Notes 283
18. References 319
19. Index 369