Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4)
Review
“It’s crucial that we confront the link Farmer reveals between social inequality and disease.” — Utne”This emotional book is an appeal for a struggle for equity in the field of health and human rights.” — Boleslav L. Lichterman, British Medical Journal”Thoughtful and provocative.” — American Scientist
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 huma (more…)
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