Yet this doctor's autobiography is far from a hopeless inventory of human suffering. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are mirrored in pathology, plague, disease and death. Farmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other. A thoughtful memoir with passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience studying diseases 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. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other."-BOOK JACKET.Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. With passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguered villages of Haiti and Chiapas, this book links the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. 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.
"Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights.
Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor / Paul Farmer with a foreword by Amartya Sen Book Bib IDīerkeley : University of California Press, c2003Ĭalifornia series in public anthropology 4.
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