Infections and Inequalities
The Modern Plagues
Recommended by Bill Gates, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #24 in Public Health, Ranked #71 in Microbiology — see more rankings.
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 modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeates AIDS, TB, malaria, and typhoid in the modern world, and that feeds emerging (or re-emerging) infectious diseases such as Ebola and cholera, is laid bare in Farmer's harrowing stories of sickness and suffering. more
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Bill Gates CEO/MicrosoftIn this book he really opens your eyes to the vast differences between the health of the rich and the health of the poor. (Source)
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