AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

Praise for the first edition: “Farmer’s sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at [the village of] Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face and an emotional edge.... The book is at the same time fiercely personal and coldly objective. The result is both moving and illuminating.”— Science “Farmer renders a richly layered and nuanced ethnographic portrait.”— Harvard Educational Review “This superbly crafted volume is dedicated to explaining and refuting a popular U.S. belief that AIDS came to the United States from Haiti. . . . Farmer has made an outstanding scholarly contribution to the ‘anthropology of suffering,’ the assessment of illness as perceived and experienced by a patient embedded in an interlocking fabric of culture and history.”— Medical Anthropology Quarterly

• | Author: Paul Farmer
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: May 03, 2006
• | Number of Pages: 376 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0520248392
• | ISBN-13: 9780520248397