All 8 Uses
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Mountains Beyond Mountains
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- The thesis was to be an "interpretive anthropology of affliction," combining evidence from ethnography, history, epidemiology, and economics.†
Chpt 2.11 *affliction = something that causes ongoing suffering
- Farmer wrote that "paralysis" and "lassitude" afflicted almost all the medical personnel who stayed on.†
Chpt 2.12afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- And yet, because tuberculosis mainly afflicted the poor side of the epi divide, the industrial nations and pharmaceutical companies had all but abandoned the search for new technologies to fight it.†
Chpt 3.13
- To actually expand resources to a problem that afflicts the populations we serve.†
Chpt 3.18afflicts = causes suffering
- Russia would mean even more days and weeks away from Haiti, a place much more afflicted by tb and every other disease.†
Chpt 4.23afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- Farmer really did love storms, even if he rarely said so without adding that they usually afflicted the poor more than others.†
Chpt 4.23
- She had begun to try to explain—one had to understand what Haiti was like and how hard it was to get someone back from there, and of course John was malnourished, but Paul Farmer, who was a famous doctor, had ordered that John be fed aggressively and had even arranged for a feeding tube, which was something rarely done in Haiti, but even the head pediatric oncologist at Mass General had said that no amount of nourishment would fatten up a child afflicted with this kind of cancer, and John still had his fighting chance—when a small, trim, middle-aged man in a black suit walked into the room.†
Chpt 5.25
- "The family is so afflicted," he explains, then adds, "Some people would say this is a scattershot approach.†
Chpt 5.26
Definitions:
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(1)
(afflict) to cause pain, suffering, or trouble -- especially something long-lasting or hard to endure
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)