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ISBN
9780520243262
Book Title
Pathologies of Power : Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Item Length
9in
Publisher
University of California Press
Publication Year
2004
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
1.1in
Author
Paul Farmer
Genre
Health & Fitness, Medical, Social Science, Political Science
Topic
Health Care Delivery, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Health Care Issues, Sociology / General, Human Rights, General, Anthropology / General
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
Number of Pages
438 Pages

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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, 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 studying diseases 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. A thoughtful memoir 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 mirrored in pathology, plague, disease and death. Yet this doctor's autobiography is far from a hopeless inventory of human suffering. 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 pathologists, medical students, and humanitarians in a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520243269
ISBN-13
9780520243262
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30783800

Product Key Features

Book Title
Pathologies of Power : Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
Author
Paul Farmer
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Health Care Delivery, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Health Care Issues, Sociology / General, Human Rights, General, Anthropology / General
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Health & Fitness, Medical, Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
438 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz

Additional Product Features

Series Volume Number
4
Lc Classification Number
2004010906
Reviews
Farmer gives voice to the unheard poor around the world and challenges medical professionals to broaden the vision of medicine to include human rights.
Table of Content
Foreword by Amartya Sen Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. BEARING WITNESS 1. On Suffering and Structural Violence Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era 2. Pestilence and Restraint Guantánamo, AIDS, and the Logic of Quarantine 3. Lessons from Chiapas 4. A Plague on All Our Houses? Resurgent Tuberculosis inside Russia's Prisons PART II. ONE PHYSICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS 5. Health, Healing, and Social Justice Insights from Liberation Theology 6. Listening for Prophetic Voices A Critique of Market-Based Medicine 7. Cruel and Unusual Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment 8. New Malaise Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era 9. Rethinking Health and Human Rights Time for a Paradigm Shift Afterword Notes Bibliography Credits Index
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2004-010906
Dewey Decimal
305.5/69
Series
California Series in Public Anthropology Ser.
Dewey Edition
22

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