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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

Farmer, Paul,i1959-2022 [Verfasser]

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2003

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 402 pages)

California series in public anthropology ; 4

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index

978-0-520-92934-0 ; 0-520-92934-9 ; 978-0-520-93147-3 ; 0-520-93147-5 ; 1-59734-796-5 ; 978-1-59734-796-9 ; 0-520-23550-9

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.