AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the geography of blame, by Paul Farmer

AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame, by Paul Farmer. University of California Press. 2006

Selected by Sirey Zhang '20

Selected by Sirey Zhang '20

Hi! My name is Sirey and I am an anthropology major from Denver, CO. I love cooking and outdoor adventures, and I hate racists and pistachios that don’t open. I worked for all four years at Feldberg. Aids and Accusation is a book examining the lived experiences of healthcare in Haiti in the wake of the AIDS epidemic in the context of colonialism and neoliberalism.

The book is personally important as it capstones much of my academic interests that I have built at school. The world is full of structural violence that crosscuts along combinations of factors such as race, gender, and class that ultimately manifest in health inequities, inequities that I want to address in a myriad of ways in my future.

Starting in the fall, I’ll be a first-year medical student at Geisel. In the midst of this strange term away from campus, I am constantly reminded of my privileges and how structural inequities make it so that poor people still must remain at work, risking their lives, and so that black and brown people and people in rural areas are dying at higher rates. What are you doing to ensure the health of your community? Are you acting in ways that force you to think beyond just yourself?

AIDS and Accusation in the Dartmouth Library Calatog

Student bookplate 2020 selection: Sirey Zhang '20

Sirey Zhang '20

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