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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... forces that decide the 'right to sur- vive' on the global stage. From Haiti to Russia to the United States, Farmer re- veals the drama of the social production of mass sickness, suffering, and death without dramatizing, and then ...
... forces that decide the 'right to sur- vive' on the global stage. From Haiti to Russia to the United States, Farmer re- veals the drama of the social production of mass sickness, suffering, and death without dramatizing, and then ...
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... forces have structured risk for AIDS, tubercu- losis, and, indeed, most other infectious and parasitic diseases” and adds that “social forces at work there have also structured risk for most forms of extreme suffering, from hunger to ...
... forces have structured risk for AIDS, tubercu- losis, and, indeed, most other infectious and parasitic diseases” and adds that “social forces at work there have also structured risk for most forms of extreme suffering, from hunger to ...
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... forces on the Mexican side of the border and had never been heard from again. Her nineteen-year-old brother, a rebel sol- dier, had been killed in combat, his body displayed as a grisly trophy for the Guatemalan army. She herself had ...
... forces on the Mexican side of the border and had never been heard from again. Her nineteen-year-old brother, a rebel sol- dier, had been killed in combat, his body displayed as a grisly trophy for the Guatemalan army. She herself had ...
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... forces . " As a physician who has worked for much of my adult life among the poor of Haiti and the United States , I know that the laws of supply and demand will rarely serve the interests of my patients . And so they and others in ...
... forces . " As a physician who has worked for much of my adult life among the poor of Haiti and the United States , I know that the laws of supply and demand will rarely serve the interests of my patients . And so they and others in ...
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... forces as “unfreedoms.” Sen helps us to move beyond “liberal” notions of nominal political free- doms—most victims of structural violence have such freedoms on paper—without falling into the trap of economic reductionism: “Devel- opment ...
... forces as “unfreedoms.” Sen helps us to move beyond “liberal” notions of nominal political free- doms—most victims of structural violence have such freedoms on paper—without falling into the trap of economic reductionism: “Devel- opment ...
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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