Pathologies of Power

Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

By:

Paul Farmer

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Paperback / softback

Series:

California Series in Public Anthropology

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

November 22nd, 2004

Author

Paul Farmer

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Contributor

Foreword by Amartya Sen

Pages

438

Series

California Series in Public Anthropology

Dimensions

152x229x28

ISBN-13

9780520243262

Product ID

1906940

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