Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the PoorUniversity of California Press, 2004 M11 22 - 438 páginas Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, 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 studying diseases 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. A thoughtful memoir 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. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are mirrored in pathology, plague, disease and death. Yet this doctor’s autobiography is far from a hopeless inventory of human suffering. Farmer’s disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer’s urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world’s poor should be of fundamental concern to pathologists, medical students, and humanitarians in a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering. |
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... decades of seeing patients in rural Haiti . How did this unpopular army suddenly return to its former haunts and ... decade , soldiers don't simply emerge from the underbrush ; they have to be reorganized , retrained and resupplied ...
... decades of seeing patients in rural Haiti . How did this unpopular army suddenly return to its former haunts and ... decade , soldiers don't simply emerge from the underbrush ; they have to be reorganized , retrained and resupplied ...
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... decades ago . More than twice that many now live with HIV . Unless treatment is made available , most of these people are expected to die within the coming decade . It is thus good news that the prices of antiretroviral drugs continue ...
... decades ago . More than twice that many now live with HIV . Unless treatment is made available , most of these people are expected to die within the coming decade . It is thus good news that the prices of antiretroviral drugs continue ...
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... decade , by our work in health care . Julia was also an international visitor , in a sense : like so many from the ... decades of armed violence , some two hundred thousand died in Guatemala , the majority of them civilians killed by the ...
... decade , by our work in health care . Julia was also an international visitor , in a sense : like so many from the ... decades of armed violence , some two hundred thousand died in Guatemala , the majority of them civilians killed by the ...
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... decades of vio- lence ? A change in mentality was needed , certainly , but it was needed in the hearts and minds of those with power — and they were not here but in Guatemala City and Washington , D.C. Julia signaled that it was time to ...
... decades of vio- lence ? A change in mentality was needed , certainly , but it was needed in the hearts and minds of those with power — and they were not here but in Guatemala City and Washington , D.C. Julia signaled that it was time to ...
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Contenido
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BEARING WITNESS | 23 |
On Suffering and Structural Violence Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era | 29 |
Pestilence and Restraint Guantanamo AIDS and the Logic of Quarantine | 51 |
Lessons from Chiapas | 91 |
A Plague on All Our Houses? Resurgent Tuberculosis inside Russias Prisons | 115 |
ONE PHYSICIANS PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS | 135 |
Health Healing and Social Justice Insights from Liberation Theology | 139 |
Cruel and Unusual DrugResistant Tuberculosis as Punishment | 179 |
New Malaise Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era | 196 |
Rethinking Health and Human Rights Time for a Paradigm Shift | 213 |
Afterword | 247 |
Notes | 257 |
Bibliography | 333 |
Credits | 379 |
Index | 383 |
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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor Paul Farmer Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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Página 213 - the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.” 1 But the intervening decades have seen
Página xxv - the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Página 135 - Article 27: Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits. Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Página 135 - Article 25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control. Article 27:
Página 130 - I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And in despair I bowed my head; “There is no peace on earth,” I said; “For hate is strong And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
Página 235 - The Haitian military coup leaders were beyond the pale. But how about Chiapas? Instruments to which Mexico is already signatory include the Geneva Conventions of 1949; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Página 8 - Development requires the removal of major sources of unfreedom: poverty as well as tyranny, poor economic opportunities as well as systematic social deprivation, neglect of public facilities as well as intolerance or overactivity of repressive states. Despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers—perhaps even the majority—of people.
Página xxv - of the Universal Declaration, which states that “Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Página 1 - The people in a number of the stories are of the kind that many writers have recently got in the habit of referring to as “the little people.” I regard this phrase as patronizing and repulsive. There are no little people in this book. They are as big as you are, whoever you are. Joseph Mitchell,