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Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

Paperback • 2005 • English

Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

By Paul Farmer

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Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of illness, 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 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. A thoughtful memoir with passionate eyewitness accounts from the prisons of Russia and the beleaguere...Show more

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9780520243262

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2005

Language

English

Original title

Pathologies of Power Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor

Format

Paperback

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