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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... inequality.3 But attempts at defining them exactly by other words have typically been inadequate and unclear (and some- times they have also generated the kind of “sociological jargon” that can sound arrestingly weird). For this reason ...
... inequality.3 But attempts at defining them exactly by other words have typically been inadequate and unclear (and some- times they have also generated the kind of “sociological jargon” that can sound arrestingly weird). For this reason ...
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... inequalities can work in many distinct ways . Take the case of Acéphie , the comely woman born in the small village of Kay through which runs Rivière Artibonite , Haiti's largest river . She is lucky to be born into a prosperous peasant ...
... inequalities can work in many distinct ways . Take the case of Acéphie , the comely woman born in the small village of Kay through which runs Rivière Artibonite , Haiti's largest river . She is lucky to be born into a prosperous peasant ...
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... INEQUALITY, AND POWER The asymmetry of power can indeed generate a kind of quiet brutality. We know, of course, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But inequalities of power in general prevent the sharing of ...
... INEQUALITY, AND POWER The asymmetry of power can indeed generate a kind of quiet brutality. We know, of course, that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. But inequalities of power in general prevent the sharing of ...
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... inequalities ranging from racism to gen- der inequality, and the more spectacular forms of violence that are un- contestedly human rights abuses, some of them punishment for efforts to escape structural violence, as the Jesuit Jon ...
... inequalities ranging from racism to gen- der inequality, and the more spectacular forms of violence that are un- contestedly human rights abuses, some of them punishment for efforts to escape structural violence, as the Jesuit Jon ...
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... inequality is central to any good-faith effort to protect the rights of the poor. The terrorism of money thus far evades and is abetted by existing legislation. It may well prove to be the biggest threat to recent gains in both health ...
... inequality is central to any good-faith effort to protect the rights of the poor. The terrorism of money thus far evades and is abetted by existing legislation. It may well prove to be the biggest threat to recent gains in both health ...
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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