Pathologies of power
health, human rights, and the new war on the poor
by Paul Farmer
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"Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times.
With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other."--BOOK JACKET.
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Poor, Human rights, Equality, Right to health, Medical care, Social stratification, Discrimination in medical care, Right to health care, Social classes, Poor, medical care, Poor--medical care, Health services accessibility, Socioeconomic factors, Communicable disease control, Vulnerable populations, Hm821 .f37 2003, 2003 g-705, W 76 f2345p 2003, 305Showing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
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Pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor
2003, University of California Press
in English
0520235509 9780520235502
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index.
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