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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.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: California series in public anthropology ; 4Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2005Description: xxxvi, 402 páginas ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0520243269 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780520243262 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM 821 F37
Contents:
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.
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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.

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