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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... questions, to keep the judged from judging, to keep solitary people from joining together, and the soul from putting together its pieces. Eduardo Galeano, “Divorces” FOR OPHELIA, LOUNE, JIM, AND TOM, MY PARTNERS IN HEALTH This page ...
... questions, to keep the judged from judging, to keep solitary people from joining together, and the soul from putting together its pieces. Eduardo Galeano, “Divorces” FOR OPHELIA, LOUNE, JIM, AND TOM, MY PARTNERS IN HEALTH This page ...
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... questions ab- solutely clear ? How exactly is “ power ” defined ? Does Farmer delineate the “ social conditions ” precisely ? Does he provide an exact definition of “ structural violence ” ? In fact , that is not the way Paul Farmer ...
... questions ab- solutely clear ? How exactly is “ power ” defined ? Does Farmer delineate the “ social conditions ” precisely ? Does he provide an exact definition of “ structural violence ” ? In fact , that is not the way Paul Farmer ...
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... question Haun Saussy , my most critical reader . For bibliographic materials and all - round inspiration , I thank Virginia Farmer ( my first instructor in human rights , who in living by the Golden Rule passed it on to her brood ) ...
... question Haun Saussy , my most critical reader . For bibliographic materials and all - round inspiration , I thank Virginia Farmer ( my first instructor in human rights , who in living by the Golden Rule passed it on to her brood ) ...
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... questions about human rights. But I have found these deaths to be haunt- ing, irrevocable, and for me and many others they have inspired largely pain; this book does little to ease that pain. In the end, then, I cannot re- ally view ...
... questions about human rights. But I have found these deaths to be haunt- ing, irrevocable, and for me and many others they have inspired largely pain; this book does little to ease that pain. In the end, then, I cannot re- ally view ...
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... questions about it . The theme of the questions was gender relations . It was difficult to know how all this was being received — the partici- pants were impassive and spoke only when the women from Guatemala City addressed them . Some ...
... questions about it . The theme of the questions was gender relations . It was difficult to know how all this was being received — the partici- pants were impassive and spoke only when the women from Guatemala City addressed them . Some ...
Contenido
1 | |
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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