Description |
xxiv, 402 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
California series in public anthropology ; 4 |
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California series in public anthropology ; 4.
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Contents |
Introduction: Bearing witness; On suffering and structural violence; Pestilence and restraint; Lessons from Chiapas; A plague on all our houses? -- One physician's perspective on human rights; Health, healing, and social justice; Listening for prophetic voices; Cruel and unusual; New malaise; Rethinking health and human rights -- Afterword. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index. |
Summary |
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 between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering. |
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Right to health.
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Human rights.
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Santé -- Aspect social.
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Vulnerable Populations. (DNLM)D035862
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Health services accessibility. (OCoLC)fst00953278
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Discrimination in medical care.
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Poor -- Medical care.
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Equality.
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Equality.
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Communicable Disease Control. (DNLM)D003140
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Strukturelle Gewalt. (DE-588)4058132-9
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Droits de l'homme.
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Soziale Schichtung. (DE-588)4077574-4
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Armoede.
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Health services accessibility.
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Armut. (DE-588)4002963-3
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Discrimination dans les soins médicaux.
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Soziales Grundrecht. (DE-588)4181928-7
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Social stratification. (OCoLC)fst01123370
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Right to health. (OCoLC)fst01759363
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Poor -- Medical care.
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Human rights.
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Diskriminierung. (DE-588)4012472-1
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Droit à la santé.
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Discrimination in medical care. (OCoLC)fst00895105
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Discriminatie.
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Health Services Accessibility. (DNLM)D006297
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Equality. (OCoLC)fst00914456
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Right to health.
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Gesundheit. (DE-588)4020754-7
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Poor -- Medical care.
(OCoLC)fst01071102
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Menschenrecht. (DE-588)4074725-6
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Mensenrechten.
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Human Rights. (DNLM)D006806
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Gezondheid.
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Local Subject |
Poor people -- Medical care.
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Subject |
Pauvres -- Soins médicaux.
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Socioeconomic Factors. (DNLM)D012959
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Pauvreté.
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Inégalité sociale.
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Medizinische Versorgung. (DE-588)4038270-9
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social stratification. (CStmoGRI)aat300055479
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Human rights. (OCoLC)fst00963285
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Social stratification.
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86.81 human rights. (NL-LeOCL)077608429
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Discrimination in medical care.
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Social stratification.
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Local Subject |
Poor people -- Medical care.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Farmer, Paul, 1959- Pathologies of power. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 (OCoLC)1085907118 |
ISBN |
0520235509 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520235502 (Cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520243269 |
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9780520243262 |
Standard No. |
9780520235502 |