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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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
c2005.
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| Painos: | [2005 edition]. |
| Sarja: | California series in public anthropology ;
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