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, Medical care, Right to health care, Social stratification, Discrimination in medical care, Right to health, 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, 305, Health Services Accessibility, Communicable Disease Control, Human Rights, Socioeconomic Factors, Vulnerable Populations, Sociale ongelijkheid, Gezondheidszorg, Mensenrechten, Stratification sociale, Égalité (Sociologie), Pauvres, Soins médicaux, Discrimination dans les soins médicaux, Droit à la santé, Droits de l'homme (Droit international), Antropologia médica, Saúde (aspectos sociais)| Edition | Availability |
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Pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor
2005, University of California Press
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Pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author
2004, University of California Press
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
April 25, 2003, University of California Press
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
2003, University of California Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-381) and index.
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| January 4, 2011 | Edited by Bryan Endersstocker | merge authors |
| January 4, 2011 | Edited by Bryan Endersstocker | Added new cover |
| August 19, 2010 | Edited by IdentifierBot | added LibraryThing ID |
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