Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on

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Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology Book 4)

Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of lifeâ€”and deathâ€”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 worldâ€™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. Farmerâ€™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. Farmerâ€™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 worldâ€™s poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering.

Country	USA
Author	Paul Farmer
Binding	Kindle Edition
Creator	Amartya Sen
Edition	1
EISBN	9780520929340
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	University of California Press
Manufacturer	University of California Press
NumberOfPages	419
PublicationDate	2003-04-25
Publisher	University of California Press
ReleaseDate	2003-03-15
Studio	University of California Press

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology Book 4)

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