Paul Farmer

Broschiertes Buch

Infections and Inequalities

The Modern Plagues

Beschreibung

Challenging the accepted methodologies of epidemiology and international health, this book points out that most explanatory strategies, from 'cost-effectiveness' to patient 'noncompliance,' inevitably lead to blaming the victims.

Autor

Paul Farmer is cofounder of Partners In Health and Chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His most recent book is Reimagining Global Health. Other titles include To Repair the World, Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor; and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, all by UC Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of California Press
• Updated ed.
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780520229136
• ISBN-10: 0520229134
• Artikelnr.: 13856521