Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor (California Series in Public...

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. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-23-2008; This book should change you; How are we all responsible for each other? This book will bring that connection quite clear.; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-21-2008; Review from Branddenotes.blogspot.com; I liked it best for introducing me to the concept of "structural violence" - essentially whenever the way an economy is set up guarantees that people at the bottom will be victims of violence - whether de jure (rape, murder) or de facto...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-22-2008; Admire Paul Farmer, but not necessarily his book; read Kidder instead; Paul Farmer has long been famous, I take it, within the medical community as a brave lifesaver in some of the world's most destitute places. He's lived in Haiti for 20-some years, tending to the poor and sick. He used his success against...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-06-2008; Pathologies of Power; Buy this book! Paul Farmer is a highly effective individual, and shows how one man can and did make a difference. He opens the window on what's going on in Latin America.; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-23-2008; This book should change you; How are we all responsible for each other? This book will bring that connection quite clear.; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Mar-22-2008; Admire Paul Farmer, but not necessarily his book; read Kidder instead; Paul Farmer has long been famous, I take it, within the medical community as a brave lifesaver in some of the world's most destitute places. He's lived in Haiti for 20-some years, tending to the poor and sick. He used his success against...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jan-15-2005; Great doctor, bad book. A moral clarity - the Structural Violence of Abortion.; Pathologies of power describes a world in which the United States (except for Harvard) can do no right and Cuba can do no wrong. Even Cuba's early HIV policy of isolating it's HIV positive citizens in 'camps' (described as idyllic...; read full review | report as inappropriate