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100 1 _aFarmer, Paul,
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245 1 0 _aPathologies of power :
_bhealth, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author /
_cPaul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen.
250 _a[2005 ed.].
260 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_cc2005.
300 _axxxvi, 402 p. ;
_c23 cm.
490 1 _aCalifornia series in public anthropology ;
_v4
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index.
505 0 _aOn suffering and structural violence : social and economic rights in the global era -- Pestilence and restraint : Guantâanamo, 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.
520 _aPathologies 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.
650 0 _aSocial stratification.
650 0 _aEquality.
650 0 _aPoor
_xMedical care.
650 0 _aDiscrimination in medical care.
650 0 _aRight to health.
650 0 _aHuman rights.
650 1 2 _aHealth Services Accessibility.
650 2 2 _aCommunicable Disease Control.
650 2 2 _aHuman Rights.
650 2 2 _aSocioeconomic Factors.
650 2 2 _aVulnerable Populations.
650 4 _aEstratificación social
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650 4 _aClases sociales
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650 0 _aIgualdad
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650 4 _aDerecho a la salud
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830 0 _aCalifornia series in public anthropology ;
_v4.
856 4 2 _3Contributor biographical information
_uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2004010906.html
856 4 2 _3Publisher description
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856 4 1 _3Sample text
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