Infections and inequalities : the modern plagues

摘要: Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis the slums Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years field, writes from front lines war against these modern plagues shows why, even those history, they target poor. This 'peculiarly inequality' that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, typhoid world, feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola cholera, is laid bare Farmer's harrowing stories sickness suffering. Challenging accepted methodologies epidemiology international health, he points out most current explanatory strategies, 'cost-effectiveness' to patient 'noncompliance,' inevitably lead blaming victims. In reality, larger forces, global well local, determine why some people are sick others shielded risk. Yet this moving account far a hopeless inventory insoluble problems. what can be done face seemingly overwhelming odds, by physicians determined treat need. "Infections Inequalities" weds meticulous scholarship passion for solutions - remedies poor social maladies have sustained them.