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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Tác giả chính: Farmer, Paul, 1959-
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.
Phiên bản:[2005 edition].
Loạt:California series in public anthropology ; 4
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