ISBN:
9780520243262
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (429 p.)
Series Statement:
California Series in Public Anthropology, 4
Parallel Title:
Print version Pathologies of Power : Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
DDC:
305.5
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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 time. In Pathologies of Power Farmer uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to link the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. 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 wi
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BEARING WITNESS; 1. On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era; 2. Pestilence and Restraint: Guantánamo, AIDS, and the Logic of Quarantine; 3. Lessons from Chiapas; 4. A Plague on All Our Houses?: Resurgent Tuberculosis inside Russia's Prisons; PART II: ONE PHYSICIAN'S PERSPECTIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS; 5. Health, Healing, and Social Justice: Insights from Liberation Theology; 6. Listening for Prophetic Voices: A Critique of Market-Based Medicine
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Cruel and Unusual: Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis as Punishment8. New Malaise: Medical Ethics and Social Rights in the Global Era; 9. Rethinking Health and Human Rights: Time for a Paradigm Shift; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Credits; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
