AIDS and Accusation:
Haiti and the Geography of Blame
by Paul Farmer
University of California Press; 2nd edition (May 3, 2006)
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"One way to avoid losing sight of the humanity of those with AIDS is to focus on experience and insights of those who are afflicted. This study has attempted to link the large-scale events and structures of the world AIDS pandemic to the lived experience and commentary of people like Manno, Anita, and Dieudonne, and also of those who lived with them. In so doing, we see more than differences in culture, more than differences between the well and the sick. Listening to these stories offers us privileged insight into what it means to be sick and poor and aware of the causes of their suffering."

Excerpt from AIDS and Accusation (1st edition) by Paul Farmer

Reviews (1st edition)

"One of the most impressive works in the new wave of ethnographies in medical anthropology. A major contribution!"
Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University

"Farmer's analysis...carefully postulates a trajectory of AIDS."
Guitele Nicoleau, Harvard Educational Review

"This study traces the introduction of AIDS in Haiti."
Washington Post Book World

"Farmer's sensitive exploration of the lives and deaths of the people at Do Kay give his study a distinctly human face."
Randall M. Packard, Science

"[Farmer] explores Haitians' experiences and understanding of the disease."
Chronicle of Higher Education