false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166152607m/10232.jpg 10232 2 <i>Pathologies of Power</i> 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. <br>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. 12951 2003 Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public Anthropology, 4) total:671|5:327|4:245|3:88|2:10|1:1| 671 2900 1422 97 4 1 false false Tue Jan 29 05:34:24 -0800 2008 Sat Feb 23 18:34:04 -0800 2008
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Though he never defines structural violence, Farmer provides vivid examples to explain the structural depravities (ie. oppressive propped up dictatorships, d...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 07 19:53:27 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 22:27:29 -0800 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 18:55:30 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 09:38:24 -0700 2007
As Tracy Kidder points out in his review: "This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr. Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority." Through...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jun 11 19:28:15 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 11 19:28:15 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 04:12:42 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 05:38:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat May 26 13:36:22 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 05 15:30:52 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 19:19:27 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 01 19:26:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 18:15:58 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 18:18:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Sep 08 10:27:46 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 06 09:22:08 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 26 09:58:35 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 10:27:21 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu May 28 22:56:17 -0700 2009 Thu May 28 22:58:41 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 06 16:33:50 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 16:35:41 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=10232