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Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen.

By: Farmer, Paul, 1959-Material type: Text

TextSeries: California series in public anthropology ; 4Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003Description: xxiv, 402 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0520235509 (Cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Social stratification | Equality | Poor -- Medical care | Discrimination in medical care | Right to health care | Human rightsDDC classification: 305 Far LOC classification: HM821 | .F37 2003

Contents:

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.

Summary: 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.Summary: J.I. Staley Prize, 2006

List(s) this item appears in: Staley Prize - Best in Anthropology

Holdings ( 2 )
Title notes

Current location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index.

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