Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the PoorUniversity of California Press, 2003 M04 25 - 419 páginas 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. 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 embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. 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 a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering. |
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... Haiti to Mexico , then to Russia , then to Peru , then to the United States , and right across the world , looking ... Haiti's largest river . She is lucky to be born into a prosperous peasant family , but her luck does not last for long ...
... Haiti to Mexico , then to Russia , then to Peru , then to the United States , and right across the world , looking ... Haiti's largest river . She is lucky to be born into a prosperous peasant family , but her luck does not last for long ...
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... Haiti, I am, as ever, grateful to Didi Bertrand, Fritz and Yolande Lafontant, Flora Chipps, and Loune Viaud as well as to the people of Cange and to the large number of victims of human rights abuses who came to me seeking my help as a ...
... Haiti, I am, as ever, grateful to Didi Bertrand, Fritz and Yolande Lafontant, Flora Chipps, and Loune Viaud as well as to the people of Cange and to the large number of victims of human rights abuses who came to me seeking my help as a ...
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... Haiti best . I believe this perspective is useful , because it brings into relief the importance , in each setting , of social and economic rights . This is no doubt because Haiti's infamous poverty stands as both rebuke and ...
... Haiti best . I believe this perspective is useful , because it brings into relief the importance , in each setting , of social and economic rights . This is no doubt because Haiti's infamous poverty stands as both rebuke and ...
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... Haiti; about death from tuberculosis within Russian prisons; about the causes and consequences of coups d'état and low-intensity warfare in Chiapas, Haiti, and Guatemala; and about the practice of medicine in settings of great ...
... Haiti; about death from tuberculosis within Russian prisons; about the causes and consequences of coups d'état and low-intensity warfare in Chiapas, Haiti, and Guatemala; and about the practice of medicine in settings of great ...
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... Haitian memory . Krik ? Who said this ? “ The foreign powers who dominate Haiti have for more than a century refused to acknowledge the integrity of Haitian culture and our right as the world's first independent black nation to steer ...
... Haitian memory . Krik ? Who said this ? “ The foreign powers who dominate Haiti have for more than a century refused to acknowledge the integrity of Haitian culture and our right as the world's first independent black nation to steer ...
Contenido
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BEARING WITNESS | 23 |
ONE PHYSICIANS PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS | 135 |
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 |
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor Paul Farmer Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor Paul Farmer Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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