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Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: California series in public anthropology ; 4.Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2005.Description: xxiv, 402 p. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520235502 :
  • 9780520243262 (pbk.) :
  • 0520235509
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305 22
Summary: Using stories of life - and death - in extreme situations, this work interrogates our understanding of human rights. The author, a physician and anthropologist, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Using stories of life - and death - in extreme situations, this work interrogates our understanding of human rights. The author, a physician and anthropologist, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our times.

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