03840nam a2200409 a 4500 13607367 BD-DhAAL 120130s2005 cau b 001 0 eng 11832 11832 2004010906 9780520243262 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0520243269 (pbk. : alk. paper) DNLM/DLC DLC DLC BD-DhAAL pcc HM821 .F37 2005 305.5/69 22 Farmer, Paul, 1959- 44071 Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen. [2005 edition]. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005. xxxvi, 402 pages ; 23 cm. California series in public anthropology ; 4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index. On suffering and structural violence : social and economic rights in the global era -- Pestilence and restraint : Guantánamo, AIDS, and the logic of quarantine -- Lessons from Chiapas -- A plague in all our houses? : resurgent tuberculosis inside Russia's prisons -- Health, healing and social justice : insights from liberation theology -- Listening for prophetic voices : a critique of market-based medicine -- Cruel and unusual : drug-resistant tuberculosis as punishment -- New malaise : medical ethics and social rights in the global era -- Rethinking health and human rights : time for a paradigm shift. 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. 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. 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. 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. He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. 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. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence. Farmer's urgent plea to think about human rights in the context of global public health and to consider critical issues of quality and access for the world's poor should be of fundamental concern to a world characterized by the bizarre proximity of surfeit and suffering. 00024418 Social stratification. 44072 Equality. 44073 Poor Medical care. 44074 Discrimination in medical care. 44075 Right to health. 44076 Human rights. 44077 Pathology. 44078 Pharmacy. 44079 James P Grant School of Public Health General Shelf. ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 305_569000000000000_FAR 0 19341 JPGSPH JPGSPH GEN 2012-01-31 0 305.569 FAR 3060024418 2012-01-31 1 2012-01-31 BK