INFECTIONS AND INEQUALITIES: The Modern Plagues

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. First Printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this moving account of the ways in which inequality and poverty fuel and feed the spread of disease, by the renowned medical anthropologist. Along with co-founding Partners In Health and serving as chair of Harvard's Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Farmer is renowned for his domestic and international fieldwork. He "experienced firsthand the 'peculiarly modern inequality' that seems inseparable from AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera." A compelling work of medical anthropology, recommended by Bill Gates on his website in a blog post entitled: "Good Disease Books." 9'' x 6''. Original quarter black cloth over maroon paper boards. In original photographic jacket, no price (as issued). xiv, 376 pages. Inscribed by Farmer on half-title page: "For O— S— / in the hopes that / this doctor's-eye view of poverty will be instructive / Paul / B___ / 10. IV. 00." Jacket with light wear and rubbing. Book with slight bumping to front board corners. Interior crisp, tight. (Inventory #: 53187)