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040525s2005 cau b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520243262 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0520243269 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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pcc |
| 060 10 - NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
W 76 |
| Item number |
F2345p 2005 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
305.569 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Farmer, Paul, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1959- |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Pathologies of power : |
| Remainder of title |
health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
[2005 ed.]. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Berkeley : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of California Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xxxvi, 402 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
23 cm. |
| 440 #0 - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| Title |
California series in public anthropology ; |
| Volume number/sequential designation |
4 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Gifted by UBS alumni : Dr. Sunita Noronha (1983) and Rev. Niranjan Noronha (1980). |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Social stratification. |
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Equality. |
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Poor |
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Medical care. |
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Discrimination in medical care. |
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Right to health. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Human rights. |
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| Materials specified |
Contributor biographical information |
| Uniform Resource Identifier |
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2004010906.html |
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Publisher description |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal051/2004010906.html |
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| Materials specified |
Sample text |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/ucal051/2004010906.html |
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Book |
