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? Award-winning author and anthropologist-physician Paul Farmer answers with this, the first full-length ethnographic study of AIDS in a poor society. First published in 1992 this new edition has been updated and a new preface added.

Preface to the 2006 EditionPreface to the First EditionIntroductionPart I: Misfortunes without Number2 The Water Refugees3 The Remembered Valley4 The Alexis Advantage: The Retaking of Kay5 The Struggle for Health6 1986 and After: Narrative Truth and Political ChangePart II: AIDS Comes to a Haitian Village7 Manno8 Anita9 Dieudonné10 "A Place Ravaged by AIDS"Part III: The Exotic and the Mundane: HIV in Haiti11 A Chronology of the AIDS/HIV Epidemic in Haiti12 HIV in Haiti: The Dimensions of the Problem13 Haiti and the "Accepted Risk Factors"14 AIDS in the Caribbean: The "West Atlantic Pandemic"Part IV: AIDS, History, Political Economy15 Many Masters: The European Domination of Haiti16 The Nineteenth Century: One Hundred Years of Solitude17 The United States and the People with HistoryPart V: AIDS and Accusation18 AIDS and Sorcery: Accusation in the Village19 AIDS and Racism: Accusation in the Center20 AIDS and Empire: Accusation in the Periphery21 Blame, Cause, Etiology, and Accusation22 Conclusion: AIDS and an Anthropology of SufferingNotesBibliographyIndex