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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... important features of global deprivations . Now , in this remarkable book , which is hard to put down , comes the big picture , firmly linked with informationally rich illustrations of in- dividual examples . Farmer points to what he ...
... important features of global deprivations . Now , in this remarkable book , which is hard to put down , comes the big picture , firmly linked with informationally rich illustrations of in- dividual examples . Farmer points to what he ...
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... important documentation, and I am grateful for its hospitality. In Russia, I thank Oksana Pomonarenko, Alexander Goldfarb, Eka- terina Goncharova, Alexander Pasechnikov, and many others at both Partners In Health–Russia and the Public ...
... important documentation, and I am grateful for its hospitality. In Russia, I thank Oksana Pomonarenko, Alexander Goldfarb, Eka- terina Goncharova, Alexander Pasechnikov, and many others at both Partners In Health–Russia and the Public ...
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... importance , in each setting , of social and economic rights . This is no doubt because Haiti's infamous poverty stands as both rebuke and interrogation — and , if we are lucky , as revelation — in virtu- ally any setting . Finally , I ...
... importance , in each setting , of social and economic rights . This is no doubt because Haiti's infamous poverty stands as both rebuke and interrogation — and , if we are lucky , as revelation — in virtu- ally any setting . Finally , I ...
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... 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 mentality was needed, certainly, but it was needed in ...
... 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 mentality was needed, certainly, but it was needed in ...
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... important to ask why it is so difficult to demon- strate the efficacy of these measures . This critique is offered in a con- structive manner . If laws and charters are inadequate and they clearly fail to perform under any but the most ...
... important to ask why it is so difficult to demon- strate the efficacy of these measures . This critique is offered in a con- structive manner . If laws and charters are inadequate and they clearly fail to perform under any but the most ...
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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