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Author:

Farmer, Paul, 1959-

Title:

Pathologies of power : health, human rights, and the new war on the poor / Paul Farmer ; with a foreword by Amartya Sen.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xxiv, 402 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Social stratification.
Equality.
Poor--Medical care.
Discrimination in medical care.
Right to health care.
Human rights.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 333-378) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Bearing witness; On suffering and structural violence; Pestilence and restraint; Lessons from Chiapas; A plague on all our houses? -- One physician's perspective on human rights; Health, healing, and social justice; Listening for prophetic voices; Cruel and unusual; New malaise; Rethinking health and human rights -- Afterword.

Series:

California series in public anthropology ; 4

ISBN:

9780520235502 (Cloth : alk. paper)
0520235509 (Cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50478409
(OCoLC)51913910

LCCN:

2002013311

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)