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Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: California series in public anthropology ; 4.Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: xxiv, 402 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0520235509
  • 9780520235502
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305 21
LOC classification:
  • HM821 .F37 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreword / Amartya Sen -- Pt. I. Bearing Witness -- 1. On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era -- 2. Pestilence and Restraint: Guantanamo, AIDS, and the Logic of Quarantine -- 3. Lessons from Chiapas -- 4. A Plague on All Our Houses?: Resurgent Tuberculosis inside Russia's Prisons -- Pt. II. One Physician's Perspective on Human Rights -- 5. Health, Healing, and Social Justice: Insights from Liberation Theology -- 6. Listening for Prophetic Voices: A Critique of Market-Based Medicine -- 7. Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment -- 8. New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era -- 9. Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift.
Review: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index.

Foreword / Amartya Sen -- Pt. I. Bearing Witness -- 1. On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era -- 2. Pestilence and Restraint: Guantanamo, AIDS, and the Logic of Quarantine -- 3. Lessons from Chiapas -- 4. A Plague on All Our Houses?: Resurgent Tuberculosis inside Russia's Prisons -- Pt. II. One Physician's Perspective on Human Rights -- 5. Health, Healing, and Social Justice: Insights from Liberation Theology -- 6. Listening for Prophetic Voices: A Critique of Market-Based Medicine -- 7. Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment -- 8. New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era -- 9. Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift.

"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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