Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author /

Farmer, Paul, 1959-

Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor : with a new preface by the author / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005 - xxxvi, 402 páginas ; 23 cm. - California series in public anthropology ; 4 .

Incluye referencias bibliográficas (páginas 333-378) e índice.

On suffering and structural violence : social and economic rights in the global era -- Pestilence and restraint : Guantánamo, AIDS, and the logic of quarantine -- Lessons from Chiapas -- A plague in all our houses? : resurgent tuberculosis inside Russia's prisons -- Health, healing and social justice : insights from liberation theology -- Listening for prophetic voices : a critique of market-based medicine -- Cruel and unusual : drug-resistant tuberculosis as punishment -- New malaise : medical ethics and social rights in the global era -- Rethinking health and human rights : time for a paradigm shift.

0520243269 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780520243262 (pbk. : alk. paper)


Clases sociales
Igualdad
Pobres--Atención médica
Atención médica--Discriminación
Derecho a la salud
Derechos humanos
Social stratification
Equality
Poor--Medical care
Discrimination in medical care
Right to health
Human rights

HM 821 / F37