"This is an angry and a hopeful book, and, like everything Dr.
Farmer has written, it has both passion and authority. "Pathologies
of Power is an eloquent plea for a working definition of human
rights that would not neglect the most basic rights of all: food,
shelter and health. This plea has special potency because it comes
from Dr. Farmer, a person who has proven that the dream of
universal and comprehensive human rights is possible, and who has
brought food, shelter, health, and hope to some of the poorest
people on this earth."--Tracy Kidder, author of "The Soul of a New
Machine and "Home Town
"Farmer's brilliance and charisma leap from the pages of his
book. He challenges us to face the urgent theoretical and political
challenges of the twenty-first century by linking structural
violence to embodied social suffering and in the process calls for
a new definition of human rights. Once this book is out, we will no
longer be able to remain complacently--or rather, complicitly--on
the sidelines."--Philippe Bourgois, author of "In Search of
Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
"A passionate critique of conventional biomedical ethics by one
of the world's leading physician-anthropologists and public
intellectuals. Farmer's on-the-ground analysis of the relentless
march of the AIDS epidemic and multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
among the imprisoned and the sick-poor of the world illuminates the
pathologies of a world economy that has lost its soul."--Nancy
Scheper-Hughes, author of "Death without Weeping: the Violence of
Everyday Life in Brazil
"In his compelling book, Farmer captures the central dilemma of
our times--the increasing disparities of health and well-being
within andamong societies. While all member countries of the United
Nations denounce the gross violations of human rights perpetrated
by those who torture, murder, or imprison without due process, the
insidious violations of human rights due to structural violence
involving the denial of economic opportunity, decent housing, or
access to health care and education are commonly ignored.
"Pathologies of Power makes a powerful case that our very humanity
is threatened by our collective failure to end these
abuses."--Robert S. Lawrence, President of Physicians for Human
Rights and Edyth Schoenrich Professor of Preventive Medicine at the
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
"Farmer has given us that most rare of books: one that opens
both our minds and hearts. It stands as a model of engaged
scholarship and an urgent call for social scientists to forsake
their cushy disregard for human rights at home and abroad."--Loic
Wacquant, author of Prisons of Poverty
"Paul Farmer is an original: a powerful writer, an insightful
theorist, and a human rights activist on behalf of the health needs
of some of the poorest and most excluded people on the planet.
"Pathologies of Power brings together all his strengths, as a
thinker and an activist. Every health worker, human rights teacher,
and government official who seeks to improve the health status and
life chances of their fellow human beings simply must read this
book."--Michael Ignatieff, author of Human Rights as Politics and
Idolatry
"Paul Farmer is a great doctor with massive experience working
against the hardest of diseases in the most adverse circumstances,
and at the same time he is a proficient and insightful
anthropologist.Farmer's knowledge of maladies such as AIDS and
drug-resistant tuberculosis, which he fights on behalf of his
indigent patients, is hard to match. But what is particularly
relevant in appreciating the contribution of this powerful book is
that Farmer is a visionary analyst who looks beyond the details of
fragmentary explanations to seek an integrated understanding of a
complex reality."--Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, Economics
General
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