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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... results in vertiginous violations of basic social and economic rights that in turn translate into escalating pathologies that ravage the poor. This book stands as a model of engaged scholarship and an urgent call for social scientists ...
... results in vertiginous violations of basic social and economic rights that in turn translate into escalating pathologies that ravage the poor. This book stands as a model of engaged scholarship and an urgent call for social scientists ...
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... results directly from a denial of political and civil liberties by authoritarian regimes and from imposed restrictions on the freedom to participate in the social, political and economic life of the community. Amartya Sen, Development ...
... results directly from a denial of political and civil liberties by authoritarian regimes and from imposed restrictions on the freedom to participate in the social, political and economic life of the community. Amartya Sen, Development ...
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... result of the frailty of our existence ? That would be correct had these sufferings been really inescapable , but they are far from that . Preventable diseases can indeed be prevented , curable ailments can certainly be cured , and con ...
... result of the frailty of our existence ? That would be correct had these sufferings been really inescapable , but they are far from that . Preventable diseases can indeed be prevented , curable ailments can certainly be cured , and con ...
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... result of its leadership: prior to Arthur came Leon Eisenberg, and before him Julius Richmond; they continue to exude goodness within the walls of the department—and their influence extends, happily, far beyond those walls. Byron and ...
... result of its leadership: prior to Arthur came Leon Eisenberg, and before him Julius Richmond; they continue to exude goodness within the walls of the department—and their influence extends, happily, far beyond those walls. Byron and ...
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... result, certainly, of the distortions introduced by a discipli- nary focus. No one discipline could ever hope to capture the complex- ity, social and biological, of the assaults on health and human rights that I hope to document. But ...
... result, certainly, of the distortions introduced by a discipli- nary focus. No one discipline could ever hope to capture the complex- ity, social and biological, of the assaults on health and human rights that I hope to document. But ...
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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