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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... observation with rigorous conceptual elaboration, Farmer gives us that most rare of books: one that opens both our minds and hearts. Pathologies of Power uses the prism of public health to illuminate the structural forces that decide ...
... observation with rigorous conceptual elaboration, Farmer gives us that most rare of books: one that opens both our minds and hearts. Pathologies of Power uses the prism of public health to illuminate the structural forces that decide ...
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... observed. For well over a decade, I have grappled, as have many others, with con- ditions that could only be described as violent—at least to those who must endure them. Since the misery in question need not involve bullets, knives, or ...
... observed. For well over a decade, I have grappled, as have many others, with con- ditions that could only be described as violent—at least to those who must endure them. Since the misery in question need not involve bullets, knives, or ...
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... observations in considering the case of Chiapas, where the rebellion has pitted the rural poor against the Mexican gov- ernment. Was this “ethnic revitalization”—most of the Zapatista rebels were indigenous people—or a broader movement ...
... observations in considering the case of Chiapas, where the rebellion has pitted the rural poor against the Mexican gov- ernment. Was this “ethnic revitalization”—most of the Zapatista rebels were indigenous people—or a broader movement ...
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... observations of powerful governments ? In this arena , we have long known that it is best to examine not what they say — in declarations , for example — but what they do . This book focuses pri- marily on Latin America , for it is here ...
... observations of powerful governments ? In this arena , we have long known that it is best to examine not what they say — in declarations , for example — but what they do . This book focuses pri- marily on Latin America , for it is here ...
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... observed. “There is nothing more animal-like,” she writes, “than a clear conscience.”37 . . . . . We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity. Revolutionary Proclamation of the Junta Tuitiva, La Paz, July 16, 1809 In some ...
... observed. “There is nothing more animal-like,” she writes, “than a clear conscience.”37 . . . . . We have maintained a silence closely resembling stupidity. Revolutionary Proclamation of the Junta Tuitiva, La Paz, July 16, 1809 In some ...
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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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