Pathologies of Power
Health, Human Rights and the New War on the Poor
Ranked #19 in Public Health, Ranked #22 in Human Rights — see more rankings.
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... more
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Pathologies of Power is ranked in the following categories:
- #84 in Anthropology
- #43 in Development Economics
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