Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2005.
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| Edition: | [2005 edition]. |
| Series: | California series in public anthropology ;
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Table of Contents:
- On suffering and structural violence : social and economic rights in the global era
- Pestilence and restraint : Guantánamo, AIDS, and the logic of quarantine
- Lessons from Chiapas
- A plague in all our houses? : resurgent tuberculosis inside Russia's prisons
- 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.