TY - BOOK AU - Farmer,Paul TI - Infections and inequalities: the modern plagues SN - 0520215443 U1 - 306.461 PY - 1999/// CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Desadaptados sociales KW - Salud e higiene KW - Enfermedades transmisibles KW - Aspectos sociales KW - Pobreza N1 - Incluye bibliografía (p. 283-367); The vitality of practice: on personal trajectories. -- Rethinking ´emerging infectious diseases´. -- Invisible women: class, gender, and HIV. -- The exotic and the mundane: human immunodeficiency virus in the Caribbean. -- Culture, poverty, and HIV transmission: the case of rural Haiti. ; Miracles and misery: an ethnographic interlude. -- Sending sickness: sorcery, politics, and changing concepts of AIDS in rural Haiti. -- The consumption of the poor: tuberculosis in the late twentieth century.-- Optimism and pessimism in tuberculosis control: lessons from rural Haiti. -- Immodest claims of causality: social scientists and the ´new´ tuberculosis. -- The persistent plagues: biological expressions of social inequalities ER -