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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Farmer, Paul, 1959- Pathologies of power. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2004010906 (OCoLC)55503455 |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Farmer |
ISBN: | 0520929349 9780520929340 9781282357617 1282357611 |
OCLC Number: | 1085907335 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2019. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xxxvi, 402 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
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 on 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. |
Series Title: | California series in public anthropology, 4. |
Responsibility: | Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen. |
Abstract:
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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