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AIDS and Accusation

Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Updated with a New Preface
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2006

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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.

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Contributor: Paul Farmer Paul Farmer, the Presley Professor at Harvard Medical School, is founding director of Partners In Health and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Among his books are Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California, 2003).

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    From Haiti to Rwanda: AIDS and Accusations

    xi
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    Preface to the First Edition

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    1. Introduction

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  • PART ONE. Misfortunes without Number
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    2. The Water Refugees

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    3. The Remembered Valley

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    4. The Alexis Advantage: The Retaking of Kay

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    5. The Struggle for Health

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    6. 1986 and Mer: Narrative Truth and Political Change

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  • PART TWO. AIDS Comes to a Haitian Village
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    7. Manno

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    8. Anita

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    9. Dieudonné

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    10. "A Place Ravaged by AIDS"

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  • PART THREE. The Exotic and the Mundane: HIV in Haiti
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    11. A Chronology of the AIDSIHIV Epidemic in Haiti

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    12. HIV in Haiti: The Dimensions of the Problem

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    13. Haiti and the "Accepted fisk Factors"

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    14. AIDS in the Caribbean: The "West Atlantic Pandemic"

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  • PART FOUR. AIDS, History, Political Economy
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    15. Many Masters: The European Domination of Haiti

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    16. The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Years of Solitude?

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    17. The United States and the People with History

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  • PART FIVE. AIDS and Accusation
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    18. AIDS and Sorcery: Accusation' in the Village

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    19. AIDS and Racism: Accusation in the Center

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    20. AIDS and Empire: Accusation in the Periphery

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    21. Blame, Cause, Etiology, and Accusation

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    22. Conclusion: AIDS and an Anthropology of Suffering

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    Notes

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    Bibliography

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    Index

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9780520933026
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https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520933026
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Keywords for this book
health studies; hiv epidemic; ethnocentric; haitian studies; cultural anthropology; new preface; updated edition; class war; political; diagnosis; medical conditions; historical; tragic; international drama; theoretical; academia; ethnographic study; hiv aids; excellent analysis; ethnocentrism; ethnographies; ethnography; anthropologist; environmental justice; medicine; medical history; race and racism
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