McElvain Library Catalog| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| Main library collection Staley Prize shelf | REF 305 Farmer 2005 | Not For Loan | t 18281 | ||
| Main library collection | 305 Far | Checked out | 10/29/2019 | T 12032 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index.
Introduction: Bearing witness; On suffering and structural violence; Pestilence and restraint; Lessons from Chiapas; A plague on all our houses? -- One physician's perspective on human rights; Health, healing, and social justice; Listening for prophetic voices; Cruel and unusual; New malaise; Rethinking health and human rights -- Afterword.
The author, 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 eyewitness accounts the book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence, challenging conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposing relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.
J.I. Staley Prize, 2006