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Pathologies of Power

Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor
By Paul Farmer
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
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Pathologies of Power by Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist, draws on two decades of experience in Haiti, Peru, and Russia to explore the link between individual suffering and systemic injustice. Through poignant personal stories of life and death, Farmer illustrates how structural violence deprives the world’s poorest people of their social and economic rights. Yet, despite these harrowing accounts, the book conveys a cautious optimism that advances in medicine and social awareness can promote a more just society.
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This book is essential for readers interested in global health, human rights, social justice, and anthropology. It appeals to educators, students, healthcare professionals, and activists seeking a deeper understanding of how structural inequalities impact vulnerable populations worldwide.

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"Pathologies of Power" uses harrowing stories of life and death to argue thatthe promotion of social and economic rights of the poor is the most importanthuman rights struggle of our times.

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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 will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice.

Series: California Series in Public Anthropology

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Experts have praised Pathologies of Power for highlighting the overlooked human rights abuses caused by structural violence, such as denial of healthcare and economic opportunity. Robert S. Lawrence of Johns Hopkins University commends Farmer's powerful case that our collective failure to address these issues threatens our humanity, while other reviewers note the book's passionate and authoritative plea for recognising basic human rights including food, shelter, and health.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520243262

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 November 2004

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Amartya Sen

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 590g

Pages: 438

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Paul Farmer Series: California Series in Public Anthropology

About the Author

Paul Farmer is Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Founding Director of Partners In Health. Among his books are Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues (California, 1999), The Uses of Haiti (1994), and AIDS and Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame (California, 1992). Farmer is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" award and the Margaret Mead Award for his contributions to public anthropology. He recently held the Blaise Pascal International Chair at the College de France. Amartya Sen, whose work challenges conventional market-driven economic paradigms, is the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in economics. He teaches at Trinity College, Cambridge University.

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