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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... less than five years.1 That, I should explain, was the number in Africa in the early 1990s, before the AIDS epidemic hit hard, making the chances worse and worse. It is difficult to get reliable statistics, but the evidence is that the ...
... less than five years.1 That, I should explain, was the number in Africa in the early 1990s, before the AIDS epidemic hit hard, making the chances worse and worse. It is difficult to get reliable statistics, but the evidence is that the ...
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... Less easy to classify are free - floating friends and colleagues who have helped me in one way or another , usually to see something that I would have otherwise missed . This group includes Jean Gabriel fils ; Tracy Kid- der ; Kris ...
... Less easy to classify are free - floating friends and colleagues who have helped me in one way or another , usually to see something that I would have otherwise missed . This group includes Jean Gabriel fils ; Tracy Kid- der ; Kris ...
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... less and less fre- quently . The frame of reference continues to be positive — a degree of well- being attained once upon a time and still attainable . In Latin America , however , the most obvious and spontaneous frame of reference for ...
... less and less fre- quently . The frame of reference continues to be positive — a degree of well- being attained once upon a time and still attainable . In Latin America , however , the most obvious and spontaneous frame of reference for ...
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... less common than one might imagine , in large part because close scrutiny of human rights abuses in Latin America brings to light em- barrassing connections : “ For the U.S.A. , the Western hemisphere is the obvious testing ground ...
... less common than one might imagine , in large part because close scrutiny of human rights abuses in Latin America brings to light em- barrassing connections : “ For the U.S.A. , the Western hemisphere is the obvious testing ground ...
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... less likely to accept responsibility for better stewardship , as James Galbraith notes : It is not increasing trade as such that we should fear . Nor is technology the culprit . To focus on “ globalization ” as such misstates the issue ...
... less likely to accept responsibility for better stewardship , as James Galbraith notes : It is not increasing trade as such that we should fear . Nor is technology the culprit . To focus on “ globalization ” as such misstates the issue ...
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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