Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author
by
 
Farmer, Paul, 1959-

Title
: 
Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author

Author
: 
Farmer, Paul, 1959-

ISBN
: 
9780520243262

Personal Author
: 
Farmer, Paul, 1959-

Edition
: 
Pbk. ed.

Publication Information
: 
Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005.

Physical Description
: 
xxxvi, 402 p. ; 23 cm.

Series
: 
California series in public anthropology ; 4.

Series Title
: 
California series in public anthropology ; 4.

Contents
: 
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.

Subject Term
: 
Social stratification.
 
Equality.
 
Poor -- Medical care.
 
Discrimination in medical care.
 
Right to health.
 
Human rights.
 
Health Services Accessibility.
 
Communicable Disease Control.
 
Socioeconomic Factors.
 
Vulnerable Populations.


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