Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the new War on the Poor (Book)

Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights and the new War on the Poor (Book)

Paul Farmer

Type

Books
Region

Global
Practice

Coaching, Public narrative, Relationship building, Team structure, Strategy, Action
Language

English

Description Pathologies of Power tells life-and-death stories to interrogate our understanding of human rights and health justice. Farmer’s disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality […]

Description

Pathologies of Power tells life-and-death stories to interrogate our understanding of human rights and health justice. Farmer’s disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies will develop in tandem with a more informed sense of social justice. Otherwise, he concludes, we will be guilty of managing social inequality rather than addressing structural violence.

Author information

Paul Farmer was an American medical anthropologist and physician. Farmer held an MD and PhD from Harvard University, where he was the Kolokotrones University Professor and the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

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Resource Information

Year: 2022
Author: Paul Farmer
Tags: Activism
Access : Public
Topics : Health
Regions : Global

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