Executive summary Remarkable gains have been made in global health in the past 25
years, but progress has not been uniform. Mortality and morbidity from common conditions …

In agonising, crippling pain from lung cancer, Mr S came to the palliative care service in
Calicut, Kerala, from an adjoining district a couple of hours away by bus. His body language …

Context: The authors of this article are all affiliated with Partners in Health, an organization
that works to provide medical care in a number of countries, including the United States and …

Background: Histologic grade in breast cancer provides clinically important prognostic
information. However, 30%–60% of tumors are classified as histologic grade 2. This grade is …

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, of life—and death—in extreme
situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and …

Any thorough understanding of the modern epidemics of AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti or
elsewhere in the postcolonial world requires a thorough knowledge of history and political …

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 …

Background Tamoxifen and raloxifene have limited patient acceptance for primary
prevention of breast cancer. Aromatase inhibitors prevent more contralateral breast cancers …

In this dissertation, ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on
the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that …

Introduction Breast cancer subtyping and prognosis have been studied extensively by gene
expression profiling, resulting in disparate signatures with little overlap in their constituent …