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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... Infectious Disease and Social Change ( working with Dr. Jim Yong Kim , another remarkable public health expert ) , Farmer has led several major initiatives in changing the direction of health care and interven- tion ( for example , in ...
... Infectious Disease and Social Change ( working with Dr. Jim Yong Kim , another remarkable public health expert ) , Farmer has led several major initiatives in changing the direction of health care and interven- tion ( for example , in ...
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... Infections and Inequalities : The Modern Plagues ( 1999 ) , he has already done much to illuminate important features of global deprivations . Now , in this remarkable book , which is hard to put down , comes the big picture , firmly ...
... Infections and Inequalities : The Modern Plagues ( 1999 ) , he has already done much to illuminate important features of global deprivations . Now , in this remarkable book , which is hard to put down , comes the big picture , firmly ...
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... 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 torture and rape.” He discusses in each case exactly how this structuring of ...
... 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 torture and rape.” He discusses in each case exactly how this structuring of ...
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... but uncared for and unhelped by society . She leaves behind a daughter , also infected with the virus . That is the begin- ning of another story , but not a long one . The inequalities of power that Acéphie faced in her brief Foreword XV.
... but uncared for and unhelped by society . She leaves behind a daughter , also infected with the virus . That is the begin- ning of another story , but not a long one . The inequalities of power that Acéphie faced in her brief Foreword XV.
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... Infectious Dis- ease and Social Change, especially our students, several of whom shared some of the experiences described here. I hope I may be forgiven for sin- gling out David Walton, Kedar Mate, Raul Ruiz, Marshall Fordyce, Evan Lyon ...
... Infectious Dis- ease and Social Change, especially our students, several of whom shared some of the experiences described here. I hope I may be forgiven for sin- gling out David Walton, Kedar Mate, Raul Ruiz, Marshall Fordyce, Evan Lyon ...
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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