AIDS And Accusation

by Farmer, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780520083431
• ISBN10: 0520083431
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United States rather than from hard evidence? Anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers in the affirmative with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(16)
PART I: MISFORTUNES WITHOUT NUMBER	17	(42)
The Water Refugees	19	(9)
The Remembered Valley	28	(5)
The Alexis Advantage: The Retaking of Kay	33	(9)
The Struggle for Health	42	(6)
1986 and After: Narrative Truth and Political Change	48	(11)
PART II: AIDS COMES TO A HAITIAN VILLAGE	59	(62)
Manno	61	(19)
Anita	80	(15)
Dieudonne	95	(15)
``A Place Ravaged by AIDS''	110	(11)
PART III: THE EXOTIC AND THE MUNDANE: HIV IN HAITI	121	(30)
A Chronology of the AIDS/HIV Epidemic in Haiti	125	(5)
HIV in Haiti: The Dimensions of the Problem	130	(4)
Haiti and the ``Accepted Risk Factors''	134	(7)
AIDS in the Caribbean: The ``West Atlantic Pandemic''	141	(10)
PART IV: AIDS, HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY	151	(40)
Many Masters: The European Domination of Haiti	153	(11)
The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Years of Solitude?	164	(13)
The United States and the People with History	177	(14)
PART V: AIDS AND ACCUSATION	191	(74)
AIDS and Sorcery: Accusation in the Village	193	(15)
AIDS and Racism: Accusation in the Center	208	(21)
AIDS and Empire: Accusation in the Periphery	229	(15)
Blame, Cause, Etiology, and Accusation	244	(8)
Conclusion: AIDS and an Anthropology of Suffering	252	(13)
Notes	265	(36)
Bibliography	301	(32)
Index	333