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Title: Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, Updated Edition With a New Preface by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0-520-22913-4 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Shining a Light
Comment: Dr. Farmer sums up what you can hear in his lectures (he is an amazing speaker), read in journals, and hear in his interviews: The "modern day plagues" result directly from Structural Violence. I read this book for my culture and health class and could not put it down. He writes with an eloquence unheard of in most anthropologists while at the same time with the passion of a deeply concerned physician. Although in some points the book can get repetitive (as case studies overlap) it is a spectacular, enlightening read that I would recommend to anyone, particularly potential (and current) medical anthropologists.
Rating: 5
Summary: Complex causality: why people are really at risk for disease
Comment: Finally Dr. Farmer couples his lucid historical, political and economic analyses of the conditions that put the poor at risk for bad health outcomes, with a plainly indignant calling out of healthcare professionals and healthcare organizations to make honest efforts to understand and remedy conditions which would never be tolerated among the well off in Western nations. In his goundbreaking, earlier books, "AIDS and Accusations," and "The Uses of Haiti," Dr. Farmer matter of factly discusses the global and local structural conditions and misrepresentations which led to the spread of disease and persistent, dismal health conditions in Haiti. In "Infections and Inequality," Dr. Farmer adds moral overtones to incisive, sociopolitical analysis and his characteristic accounts of individuals suffering from disease. The book consequently provides a powerful reflection from a man who has worked in some of the world's poorest regions on what the benefits of medical technology mean for people who have not traditionally had access to them. A powerful, informative read that clearly reflects the years of experience of a physician who has wrestled with the global responsibility of caring for the those who are worst off. An obligatory read for anyone even thinking of working for the impoverished of the world.
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Title: Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520235509 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer by TRACY KIDDER ISBN: 0375506160 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Uses of Haiti, Updated Edition by Paul Farmer ISBN: 1567512429 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Dying for Growth: Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor by Jim Yong Kim, Alec Irwin, Joyce Millen, John Gershman, Jim Young ISBN: 1567511600 Publisher: Common Courage Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care, No 33) by Paul Farmer ISBN: 0520083431 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: August, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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