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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.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 402 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520929340
  • 0520929349
  • 9780520931473
  • 0520931475
  • 1597347965
  • 9781597347969
  • 1417520094
  • 9781417520091
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Pathologies of power.DDC classification:
  • 305 22
LOC classification:
  • HM821 .F37 2003eb
NLM classification:
  • 2003 G-705
  • W 76
Other classification:
  • 86.81
  • MS 6200
  • PR 2213
Online resources:
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.
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Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index.

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.

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.

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