Livre - Infections and inequalities

Neither the stories of infections nor those of inequalities are new. But Paul Farmer's analysis of the two entwined is refreshingly original. The book opens with the words of Rudolph Virchow, “Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement; we will weight life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged.” Infections and Inequalities goes beyond the statistics and promises more than armchair analysis. Drawing on his experiences as physician and anthropologist, Paul Farmer takes the reader on a journey—part epidemiological critique, part ethnographic portrait.