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Pathologies of power

health, human rights, and the new war on the poor

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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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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
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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2004, 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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Table of Contents

Introduction: Bearing witness; On suffering and structural violence; Pestilence and restraint; Lessons from Chiapas; A plague on all our houses?
One physician's perspective on human rights; Health, healing, and social justice; Listening for prophetic voices; Cruel and unusual; New malaise; Rethinking health and human rights
Afterword.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index.

Published in
Berkeley
Series
California series in public anthropology -- 4

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
305
Library of Congress
HM821 .F37 2003, HM821.F37 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxiv, 402 p. ;
Number of pages
402

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24801046M
ISBN 10
0520235509
LCCN
2002013311
OCLC/WorldCat
50478409

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Work ID
OL1901607W

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