Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

Name: Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
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ISBN: 9780520243262

ISBN-10: 0520243269

ISBN-13: 9780520243262

Edition: 2004

Authors: Paul Farmer, Amartya Sen

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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…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/22/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 438
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.298



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Bearing Witness



On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era



Pestilence and Restraint: Guantanamo, AIDS, and the Logic of Quarantine



Lessons from Chiapas



A Plague on All Our Houses? Resurgent Tuberculosis inside Russia's Prisons



One Physician's Perspective on Human Rights



Health, Healing, and Social Justice: Insights from Liberation Theology



Listening for Prophetic Voices: A Critique of Market-Based Medicine



Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment



New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era



Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift


Afterword


Notes


Bibliography


Credits


Index