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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... tion ( for example , in tackling drug - resistant TB ) . But what is particularly relevant in appreciating the contribution of this powerful book is that Paul Farmer is a visionary analyst who can look beyond the details of fragmentary ...
... tion ( for example , in tackling drug - resistant TB ) . But what is particularly relevant in appreciating the contribution of this powerful book is that Paul Farmer is a visionary analyst who can look beyond the details of fragmentary ...
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... tion, which many social scientists seek, often cannot escape being mis- leadingly exact; it can be precise but precisely inaccurate. A rich phe- nomenon with inherent ambiguities calls for a characterization that preserves those shady ...
... tion, which many social scientists seek, often cannot escape being mis- leadingly exact; it can be precise but precisely inaccurate. A rich phe- nomenon with inherent ambiguities calls for a characterization that preserves those shady ...
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... tion. No harm done, perhaps, and the topic was important—but how helpful was this exercise, with its aim of changing the mentality of the locals, who were, after all, the victims of the previous decades of vio- lence? A change in ...
... tion. No harm done, perhaps, and the topic was important—but how helpful was this exercise, with its aim of changing the mentality of the locals, who were, after all, the victims of the previous decades of vio- lence? A change in ...
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... tion at the outset of the revolt, the Zapatistas noted that, “in Chiapas, 14,500 people die a year, the highest death rate in the country. What causes most of these deaths? Curable diseases: respiratory infections, gastroen- teritis ...
... tion at the outset of the revolt, the Zapatistas noted that, “in Chiapas, 14,500 people die a year, the highest death rate in the country. What causes most of these deaths? Curable diseases: respiratory infections, gastroen- teritis ...
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... tion of the fruits of scientific advancement . Such an approach is in keep- ing with the Universal Declaration but runs counter to several of the reigning ideologies of public health , including those favoring efficiency over equity.40 ...
... tion of the fruits of scientific advancement . Such an approach is in keep- ing with the Universal Declaration but runs counter to several of the reigning ideologies of public health , including those favoring efficiency over equity.40 ...
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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