![]() Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. ![]() He illustrates the ways that racism and gender inequality in the United States are embodied as disease and death. Farmer challenges conventional thinking within human rights circles and exposes the relationships between political and economic injustice, on one hand, and the suffering and illness of the powerless, on the other.įarmer shows that the same social forces that give rise to epidemic diseases such as HIV and tuberculosis also sculpt risk for human rights violations. 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 violence. 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. ![]() Pathologies of Power uses harrowing stories of life-and death-in extreme situations to interrogate our understanding of human rights. ![]()
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