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1 online resource (xii, 660 pages) : illustrations. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
California series in public anthropology ; 23
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California series in public anthropology ; 23.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader; Contents; Foreword: Seeing the Proof; Introduction: The Right to Claim Rights; Part 1. Ethnography, History, Political Economy; Introduction to Part 1; 1. Bad Blood, Spoiled Milk: Bodily Fluids as Moral Barometers in Rural Haiti (1988); 2. Sending Sickness: Sorcery, Politics, and Changing Concepts of AIDS in Rural Haiti (1990); 3. The Exotic and the Mundane: Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Haiti (1990); 4. Ethnography, Social Analysis, and the Prevention of Sexually Transmitted HIV Infection among Poor Women in Haiti (1997). |
Summary |
For nearly thirty years, anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer has traveled to some of the most impoverished places on earth to bring comfort and the best possible medical care to the poorest of the poor. Driven by his stated intent to "make human rights substantial," Farmer has treated patients-and worked to address the root causes of their disease-in Haiti, Boston, Peru, Rwanda, and elsewhere in the developing world. In 1987, with several colleagues, he founded Partners In Health to provide a preferential option for the poor in health care. Throughout his career, Farmer has written eloque. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Poor -- Medical care.
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Poor -- Medical care. |
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Medical anthropology.
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Medical anthropology. |
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Social medicine.
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Social medicine. |
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Epidemiology.
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Epidemiology. |
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Public health.
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Public health. |
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Poverty. |
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Social Medicine. |
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Internationality. |
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Physician's Role. |
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Social Justice. |
Genre/Form |
Personal Narrative.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Added Author |
Saussy, Haun, 1960-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Farmer, Paul, 1959- Partner to the poor. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520257115 (DLC) 2009038154 (OCoLC)436968427 |
ISBN |
9780520945630 (electronic book) |
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0520945638 (electronic book) |
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9780520257115 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520257139 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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