Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen.
Material type: TextSeries: California series in public anthropology ; 4.Publication details: Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, 2005.Description: xxiv, 402 p. ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780520235502 :
- 9780520243262 (pbk.) :
- 0520235509
- 305 22
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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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