Paul Farmer 
AIDS and Accusation [EPUB ebook] 
Haiti and the Geography of Blame, Updated with a New Preface

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.

Cuprins

Preface to the 2006 Edition

Preface to the First Edition


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

Despre autor

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).