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008			040525s2005 cau b 001 0 eng
020			_a9780520243262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020			_a0520243269 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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060	1	0	_aW 76 _bF2345p 2005
082	0	0	_a305.569
100	1		_aFarmer, Paul, _d1959-
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.
440		0	_aCalifornia series in public anthropology ; _v4
500			_aGifted by UBS alumni : Dr. Sunita Noronha (1983) and Rev. Niranjan Noronha (1980).
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index.
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.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/ucal052/2004010906.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/ucal051/2004010906.html
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/ucal051/2004010906.html
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