Pathologies Of Power

Hardcover by Paul Farmer witha forewordbyAmartyaSen. Health,Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor. 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 20 years of experience in work working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most influence important human rights struggle of our times. With passionate eye witness accounts from 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 the conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationship between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering illness of the powerless, on the other. Inside is in excellent condition dustcover one corner has wear/name 1st