About this title: Paul Farmer, a physician and anthropologist with twenty years of experience working in Haiti, Peru, and Russia, argues that promoting the social and economic rights of the world's poor is the most important human rights struggle of our time. In Pathologies of Power Farmer uses harrowing stories of life - and death - in extreme situations to link the lived experiences of individual victims to a broader analysis of structural violence. Yet this book is far from a hopeless inventory of abuse. Farmer's disturbing examples are linked to a guarded optimism that new medical and social technologies ...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2004-10-01
ISBN-13:9780520243262ISBN:0520243269
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780520243262ISBN:0520243269
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of California Pr, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780520235502ISBN:0520235509
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Univ of California Pr
Date Published: 2003-04-01
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Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2003
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9780520243262ISBN:0520243269
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Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN-13:9780520243262ISBN:0520243269
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"It's books like this that make me temporarily enraged with America, its obscene affluence, and hypocritical Christian support of it, and that make me want to abandon my trek toward academia and do something more useful, like helping the oppressed.
Edit: I should add that I'm not actually sure whether I should give this book 4 stars. From a Christian and theoretical standpoint, it's very lacking. He is not himself a Christian, and though he claims to draw on the insights of liberation theology to formulate his argument against "structural violence," he evacuates liberation theology of anything theological in the process, leaving his resources for combatting the evil he sees very vague and limited indeed. In particular, the notion of "structural violence" could be much more developed within a Christian framework of sins of omission--the neglect of responsibility, at individual and corporate levels.
But I'll keep it at 4 stars, since he gives a very powerful portrait of the problems out there, and so succeeds well at his primary objective. If his primary objective were to articulate a solution, he would have failed rather badly."
"This was assigned to me in my Development Anthropology class years ago, but I'm re-reading it, because I probably missed a lot of things that my frazzled, school-tasked brain disregarded because I had to write a specific paper on it. So far, I am right. Truly eye opening, and despite the fact that it's a more scholarly read, it's an easy read and totally engrossing, that is, if you're a public health nerd like I am."
"This probably isn't most people's idea of recreational reading, but Farmer's view of the aid community and how first world powers use aid and don't aid when they should really resonated with me. It's an angry book from one who knows just how angry we all should be. This has me looking for more of what he has written. I am particularly interested in more about Haiti. It wasn't always comfortable. We are all complicit in this and I could feel my own complicity as I read it. I thought about parallels between the situations he describes in health and my own work in education."
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