AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame
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AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame

Paul Farmer
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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.
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