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Physician and anthropologist Farmer studied the impact of AIDS on the impoverished people of Haiti, and his portrayal for his doctoral dissertation, of a small rural village--its clinic, religious life, folk healers, and voodoo beliefs--brings Haitian culture powerfully to life. He provides an extensive history of the country, finally exploring the connection between suffering and blame: Americans have blamed Haitians for "causing" AIDS, while Haitians have accused one another of "sending" it through sorcery. Rarely is a book based on a dissertation so engaging. Highly recommended for academic and subject collections.
- Judith Eannarino, Washington, D.C.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Farmer's analysis . . . carefully postulates a trajectory of AIDS in the United States, Haiti, and the Caribbean, revealing the intimate economic and political links that allowed for the syndrome to appear simultaneously in the countries of the Western hemisphere. . . . Farmer renders a richly layered and nuanced ethnographic portrait." --
Guitele Nicoleau, Harvard Educational Review"Farmer's sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face and an emotional edge that moves the study and the reader beyond the cynical gaze of post-modernism and political economy. The book is at the same time fiercely personal and coldly objective. The result is both moving and illuminating." --
Randall M. Packard, Science"[Farmer] explores Haitians' experiences and understanding of the disease with moving profiles of the first three AIDS sufferers in Do Kay, the village where he conducted field work from 1983 to 1990." --
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- Series: Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care
- Hardcover: 338 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press (August 26, 1992)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0520077016
- ISBN-13: 978-0520077010
- Product Dimensions: 0.8 x 6.2 x 9.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Free AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
Farmer's excellent historical ethnography of Haitian illness (as seen through the contemporary context of the world AIDS epidemic), proves the necessity of developing anthropological approaches to understanding health systems and implementing medical care. The diagnosis and analysis of sickness, disease, illness, and treatment should go hand-in-hand with the cultural understanding of local systems of blame, accusation, causation, and cure. Where most approaches to medicine are based on the "Westernized" first-world nations' understanding of the causes of illness (tainted as well, as Farmer shows, by systematic "blame the victim" and shame techniques), the adoption of these approaches in treating the illnesses of other peoples can be catastrophic. Three ethnographies make up the structure of a detailed historical inquiry )
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