Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues by Paul Farmer

Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues

Paul Farmer

424 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced

Description

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these m...

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informative 85%
challenging 71%
reflective 42%
emotional 28%
sad 28%
dark 14%

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slow 57%
medium 42%

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