TY - BOOK AU - Farmer,Paul TI - Pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor T2 - California series in public anthropology SN - 0520235509 AV - HM821 .F37 2003 U1 - 305 21 PY - 2003///] CY - Berkeley PB - University of California Press KW - Social stratification KW - Equality KW - Poor KW - Medical care KW - Discrimination in medical care KW - Right to health KW - Human rights N1 - 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 N2 - "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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/ucal041/2002013311.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2002013311.html ER -