| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 402 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
California series in public anthropology ; 4
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California series in public anthropology ; 4.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-378) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Bearing witness; On suffering and structural violence; Pestilence and restraint; Lessons from Chiapas; A plague on all our houses? -- One physician's perspective on human rights; Health, healing, and social justice; Listening for prophetic voices; Cruel and unusual; New malaise; Rethinking health and human rights -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social stratification.
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Social stratification. |
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Equality.
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Equality. |
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Poor -- Medical care.
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Poor -- Medical care. |
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Discrimination in medical care.
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Discrimination in medical care. |
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Right to health.
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Right to health. |
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Human rights.
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Human rights. |
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Health Services Accessibility. |
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Communicable Disease Control. |
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Human Rights. |
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Socioeconomic Factors. |
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Vulnerable Populations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Human rights. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Farmer, Paul, 1959- Pathologies of power. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520235509 (DLC) 2002013311 (OCoLC)50478409 |
| ISBN |
9780520929340 (electronic book) |
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0520929349 (electronic book) |
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9780520931473 (electronic book) |
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0520931475 (electronic book) |
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1597347965 (electronic book) |
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9781597347969 (electronic book) |
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